The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1939, Page 1

_g—— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1939. PRlcfi CENTS JAPAN TIGHTENS PRESSURE ON BRITISH THIRD TERM | BOMBINGS TIENTSIN TALK FORCES | ( IN CHINA E8 sLockap OUTREMARKS PROTESTED d INCREASES Two Senafars Express | American Properties Con- { Nippon Forces Also Sur- Their Opinions on Re- tine fo Be Shelled by round International Set- nomination of FDR Japanese Planes flement at Amoy WASHINGTON, June 20—In a | St speech last night, Senator Edward ;retmssn\lsi:{sb]émi!‘:*‘l‘r :gfs;?& "Ew Fklnlo" Bku“ . de- Burke, Democrat of Nebraska, de: our AT SHA"GH‘I "ow American Charge d’Affaires at To- clared that the third term might | kyo has protested to Japans con- lead to a breakdown of the Demo- . | . No Concern Felt Over Unit- ed States Gefting Info | tinued bombing of American prop- cratic form of Government v Eernes in China. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, Y i Orienal Mess f s ——— VOL. LiV., NO. 8135. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Placing Order for 24 Ships Spanish “Volunteers” Return to Germany Eugene Dooman, Charge d’Affaires Democrat of Indiana, announced . called on the Japanese Minister, that he “opposed the renomination 3 | with instructions from the State or re-election of President Roosevelt . < 2 = o | Department, and in, addition to or any other man for a third term.” £ T Q8 5 % making representations against the Both Senators have frequently dis- bombings, also sought to obtain per- | mission to publish the recent éx- | change of notes between the United | States and Japan on this subject. Secretary Hull explained that it it is customary to obtain assent | from a foreign government for pub- lication of notes. In this case, assent has not yet | been obtained. MANTON agreed with the Administration, particularly on the Court issue. Sen. Van Nuys' remarks attracted special attention because Senator Sherman Minton said previously that Indianians were supporting Paul McNutt for the Presidency, but would get behind President Roose- velt if he chose to-run. - Is Roosevell ADMIRAL LEAH PUERTO RICO WITH HARD Charles Edison, assistant secretary of the Navy, signs final conflrmnt?on n Washington awarding contracts to private shipyards for construction | bf twenty-four new ships. Purpose of the ship-building spurt !u to regain | the 5-5-3 ratio upset by British-Japanese increases. Looking on are Warren McLaine, and Rear Admiral W. B, Woodson (center)., Y GOES T0 N GIVEN LIMIT; 2 YEARS - INFED. PRISON, Grace Abbott, Child Welfare n Spain. Victory won and the Repu . of her role. Here, 5,000 men of the Nazi Condor Legion parade through Ha Spain. Field Marshal Hermann Goering is taking the sa SINESS TAX REVISION BILL PASSES HOUSE i n-intervention agreements, Germany denied her soldiers were aiding the forces 91 Gonersl Feaueo in Spain < blican army defeated, Germany openly boasted mburg on their return from SUBINQUIRY | BRINGS OUT | Measure Rfigfléd fo Senate MANY FACTS (By Associated Press) Japan is confident that the “Brit- | ish must carry the burden of finding a peace formula” in the present tense Tientsin situation at the Nip- pon forces strengthened the block- ade of the British concession at Tientsin and at the same time, the Japanese authorities let it be known there will be no ‘“backing down” either on the issue over the Inter | national Settlement at Amoy. | The statement made in Washing- | ton by Secretary of State Cordell | Hull that the United States is con- | cerned over the “broader aspects” in | the Tientsin crisis evoked no news | paper comment in Tokyo. Candidate in | 1940!ReadOn TASKTOPERFORMFORU.S. ! WASHINGTON, June 20—Obser- | : 'ENGLISH YACHT PreSIdeni—Answer { |vers here interpret the appointment| NEW YORK, June 20—Marin T. A | |of Admiral Leahv, naval chief of |Manton, former Judge of the Unit- Is Given, Yes? ‘ SPENDS NIGHT IN ! operations, to take over .the gov-|ed States Circuit Court of Appeals, WASHINGTON, June 20.—Presi- juNEAU HARBOR ernment in Puerto Rico, as mean- | was today sentenced to two years ing that the osdministration had!in a Federal prison and also fined dent Roosevelt was asked point | decided nothing should be spared to | $10,000. blank at the conference with news- bring about improvement in the; The sentence is the maximum men this afternoon whether he is island's condition. possible under his conviction for a candidate for reelection in 1940. Of ali U. 8. colonial problems|conspiracy to sell judical favors. The President told his interrogator that of Puerto Rico has been worst.| Manton was sentenced by Fed- to go stand in a corner. Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico €78l Judge Chestnut after making That was the President’s only and Cuba came under the American @ fervid but dispassionate plea of answer he gave to the question. wing almost simultaneously, and the °Ver an hour, to have the jury's The question and answer brought conditions of all but Puerto Rico "El’fd‘_;‘ t;‘;‘ [:;‘3°‘m:”‘:“‘:$ \{1‘1"1'::; a laugh from the President who senty-eight Dave improved with reasonable ¢ ! i : furttler’ sl e madntarmstal mis- |, 170, Dumimd and twenty-clghity B8 e e | he eppke of “chagrin Ui Simiil take the other day. Columnists have written considerable about it, he feet of royal yacht, the luxurious o s guffered: MEANE fig e 4 b the Hon. knew Puerto Rico “away back when» Uon" e suffered, Manton summon- vessel Fantome, owned by the Hon ay back when {80 & long asy of weswRAELS said, because he had forgotten to mention the corner. orable I. E. Guinness, of the famed Will tell you that affairs in the pess i 3 G % 3 Fogls Caribbean isl: a |against the con ion of the jury stout producing family of England, ean island, both political and anhad onidane e | The President did not explain this remark. spent the night in Juneau's harbor. economic, have grown worse. They s Guinness, 64 years of age, with place the blame about equally on |little love for publicity arising out natural difficulties in the island MINER SUICIDES| Johnny Amundsen flew three No Fear of U. 8, The Japanese Consul General at Tientsin said Great Britain is at- tempting to persuade the United States to snatch her chestnuts from the Far Eastern fire but official cir~ cles in Tokyo seem convinced that ‘Washington will remain outside the tontroversy unless asked by both sides to mediate. Eugene Dooman, Charge d’Affaires at Tokyo, is reported authoritatively to have protested against the Jap- anese naval blockade of Julangsu, International Settlement at Amoy. It is also believed Dooman dis- cussed the Tientsin situation. | High Japanese military authorities and diplomatic officials, it is sald, have alid reports of the China issue | before Emperor Hirohito. Former Judge Is Also Fin- ed $10,000 for Sell- ing Judicial Favors Exponent, Dies Had Cha rbedof Nation’s [ . Efforts in Battling “for Children | ~"Deferrents” to Busi- ness Are Removed BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, June 20.~The Senate Finance Committee has unanimously ap- proved of the Business tax re- vision bill passed by the House. WASHINGTON, June 20. business tax revision bill has been approved by the House with only one dissenting vote and has been rushed toward the Senate The measure repeals the last|er of the sunken craft. vestige of undistributed profits tax| In discussing valves by which and continues for the next two air is taken in when a submarine years the excise levies. |is on the surface, the equipment The measure was supported by which some officers blame for the Democrats and Republicans alike | sinking of the Squalus, Lieut. Na- who expressed a desire to eliminate |quin asserted that if any one of the so-called business “deterrents.”|the four pipes were ruptured by a The lone objector, amid 358 votes,)depth bomb or mine, the entire |is Representative George Holden |ventilating system of the undersea Tinkham, Republican of Massa- boat would be flooded. | chusetts, who said he opposed the! Lieut. Naquin recommended that |excise taxes and als othrough the an “automatic instantaneous snap | | bill did not give enough concessions action” equipment that would close | to corporations. the pipes be installed in the future. > Earlier, Lieut. Naquin declined i | to concede directly that the mechan- icle fault of the main induction | | |valve caused .the ship to plunge to 3 | WAR MATERIAL | away here last evening. | All over the nation, child welfare Induction Val]ies on Un-| dersea Craft Said to Be Faulty | | | | | | ! PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, | June 20-—Assertion that the induc- The | tion equipment on the submarine; Squalus would have been “fatally | defective in time of wa was made | at the Naval Court inquiry today| by Lieut. Oliver Naquin, Command- Question Isfli Direct fo S Stout Producing Guinness { One of World's Foremost Yachtsmen Visits Here NEW FRICTION | SHANGHAI, June 20.—New fric- tion has developed between Great Britain and Japan over British nav- al operations on the Yangtze River. The British deny two Japanese charges that sallors of the British gunboat Scarab unloaded suppliesat ‘Wuhu, Yangtze River port, for the British naval canteen, in violation of an agreement to first obtain - anese permission first and also t the British “covered” a Japanmese | detachment with machine guns @iir- | ing the unloading. : British officials asserted they in- tend to unioad naval stores wher- | ever the occasion demanded and in | turn charge the Japanese with un- warranted Japanese naval interfer- ence with the Scarab at Wuhu. B 'GRACE . ABBOTJ CHICAGO, Tll, June 200.—Grace Abbott, of the faculty of the Uni- versity of Chicago, formerly United States Children's Bureau, passed Escapes frofieformalory ~Going Out “"For One Last Good Time™ MARYSVILLE, Ohio, June 20— Velma West, a flapper era wife who| bludgeoned her husband to death |in 1927 because he would not go to | of what crew members said was a itself and on inept governors. “bit of lousy turn” received from | Under Democratic and Republican newsmen some years ago, spoke administrations alike it has been friendly enough to reporters here.lthe habit, with a few exceptions, to! “You've a lovely country,” Guin-lappoint governors who are either the bottom on May ness said as he made his difficult)ouy and out political hacks or mil- p DU way down the sieep gangway ab itary executives who have nmited Frank B. Nagle Sends Bul- e, Fpnny. Kioay \\'lfil\:‘]a dheavy hcane patience with cumberspme civil b . P FI E e T Y s = | let Info Brain in , apper Id L. Brennan was to go to Tenakee,| ANC hat 1s the complete de-| The present governor, General b d for their work be- | W|'e Sla er and Bernard Wray and J. C, Greely SCription of somewhat, fecble, but|Blanton Winship, has been the tar-| GLENDALE, Cal, June 20—Po-| catis Grone abbost wae Director of | Cotton Storages Used bY Y to Sitka. ; (boat-loving Guinness, one of the get of cruticism from witnesses be- | lice Chief V. B. Browne records as| the Federal Children's Bureau trom | Frepch in Military | f T Amundsen was to stop at Hawk Wealthies men of England, who has|fore congressional committees just| suicide the death of Frank B. 1921 to 1934, y [ | Inlet, Superior Packing Company WO other vachts larger than thelgs nave previous governors. Every | Nagle, 72, former Alaska miner, who| When she started her tenure, she Work Des[royed | 0' Male Free‘ e eagur e and Tenakee, Todd, Sitka, Chich- Fantome and spends his years trav-|goyernor who goes down there has | was found shot to death in a chair | faced a picture of children working [ [l | | agof and Hirst Chichagof with mail eh{wg‘the globe with {"“9 YeSPECltwo strikes called on him before ! in his home yesterday. when they should have been in ‘ g sy ! | M ™ V this morning, while this afternoon, | {0 time or business cares beyond gyer ne sets food on the island. | Nagle had been in ill health, his| school, children ill from lack of| ANGOULEME, France, June 20— £y Hoonah, Port Althorp, Lisianski 2P occasional rush trip back to Lon- = 5, "you 5 goalition group has|widow said. | proper food and children in common | Fire today destroyed the cotton Ien SIn 4 were to be on the mail run list. 4o for necessary business UANSAC- | oritical control in the islands—un- | Nagle is the first man, it is re- | prisons for lack of detention homes. wasmrctites U St Agoulens] & | ", Flies To England ig;zr the governor, of course. Gen- | ported, to bring mail from Nome When sh(: left, child labor was be- | mThBeryhlgz:L\:usad;%vered < . For instance, in March, after the| al Wmsmps_crmc.‘s have testified | to San Francisco. ‘This was in 1897 | ing outlawed through induhmal‘uw CAArGe TR fnd” 't the re eav‘n WIO SM‘ll lOADS | Fantome had been taken from Lon-|that he has given in to them far | Ry | codes under the NRA, states Were| ... ooure of munitions this fore- | don to San Francisco, Guinness left|!00 much with the result that pat- | pe : holding foint conferences on Juvenlle |, oo™ uiokly spread to ware- | or HMIB“I SolD ' {ronage rolls have been swelled ex- F'nds old F'Iend delinquency and ~welfare agencies QICELY A i AR {ane e fe Game o 11y, Across they { | were bending their effors to feed |1OUSe after warehouse. | . 3 | continent, make a rush trip to Lon- | Pensively. : | P endng el J 9 Heavy detachments of troops were | Women and cm'dren Afe Two halibut boats, the Helen H., don for a fortnight, then hurried| General Winship replies that the | B "ews aper Ad‘umrpm"eg;d ;:h”dl;:.':i thrown around the factory. , David Young, and the Aeroplane, back to rejoin the yacht and con-island’s budget is in balance, a y p pe | She went i: 193‘: to l:c University R0 Eva(ua'mg B|0(k3ded David Willard, sold halibut cargoes | tinue a leisurely cruise. statement which his critics greet | of Chicago’s school for social admin- o . last night and today on the local| Going to Pacific Northwest wa-|with derisive cheers. They say that| LEBANON, Ore. June 20—t still | joroeion® e Ghich ‘or elder sister, British Concession caped from the reformatory here exchange. The Helen H. sold 5000 pounds and the Aeroplane 1,500 pounds, both selling to New England at 6'2 and 4% cents a pound. DIAMOND DRILL MAN ON MINE EXAMINATION R. D. Longyear, President of the E. J. Longyear Company of Min- neapolis, mining engineers, core drillers and sellers of diamond drills, arrived in Juneau today on his way into the Interior for several months of mine examination work. He is flying Saturday to Fairbanks. e ———— The United States is by far the world’s largest producer of petrol- eum, with Russia second and Ven- ezuela third. ters, Seattle and Vancouver, and then on to Alaska where he went as far as the Glacier Bay area, Guinness is now returning to take | up plans for another cruise to | Scotland, perhaps, or possibly Nor- way. The Fantome will be left at Se- lattle and the ‘entire crew of 36 will go overland to New York and back to London to pick up the Fan- tome II, a brig type auxiliary sailer. Then, with the Fantome in Seattle, it will be possible to return in the | future to the Pacific Coast with a | minimum of time consumed to con- tinue a more extended Alaska and | Pacific rim cruise. 1200-Ton Vessel The Fantome that anchored in | the channel here, is a 1200 ton ves- | sel, 228 feet overall with a 38-foot beam. She is 118 feet high from the waterline to the masthead trucks, Her power is a compliment to under the act giving Puerto its gov- | |ernment the budget never can get | |unbalanced. If the legislature ap-. lpropnatcs more money than is rais adjusted to fit. 1 Meantime sugar plantations have expanded in the island, the larger | ones owned by people outside the | island. That takes out some of the | wealth and has hurt many who | once depended on small crops. The population is almost as dense as that of Rhode Island, nearly 500 Lo the mile, and hasn’t a handful of factory industry with which to sup- port it. | | Lots of Trouble There have been street shootings and assassinations, climaxed by | that of 1937 when police killed 20| and wounded 100 in suppressing a Palm Sunday parade of young men and women supporting an indepen- (Continued on Page Five) " (Continued on Page Five) pays to advertise. Mrs. Etta Bridge- former, a former Nebraska resident. still living. To her astonishment her school- girl chum, Mrs. Mary McDonald, who | being Othman lived only twenty miles from Le- banon, answered the ad. The two was November 17, 1878, She went |y .:‘ women had not seen each other for through the Grand Island schools Motors 44%, International Harvest- fifty-four years. e NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION IS ON SLATE WASHINGTON, June 20.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said today it is per- fectly true that he does not want Congress to adjourn before acting on neutrality legislation. | Edith Abbott, was dean, to teach public welfare administration and jinserted a classified advertisement|ihys ajd in training successors in | in a paper of her native state asking | the work in which she achieved dis ed by taxes, the budget has to be|if any of her girlhood friends were | (inction, | The Abbott sisters were |Grand Island, Neb. their parents A. and Elizabeth Grace’s natal day born in Griffin Abbott. |and took a Ph.B degree at Grand | Island- College in 1898. Then for | Three years she taught in the Grand |Island high school, took a year of graduate work at the University of { Nebraska, 1902-3, and returned to her high school teaching through 1907. At the university she and | Ruth Bryan Owen, later minister to iDenrnark, acted together in an amateur play. Works With Perkins The year 1908 saw the Abbott sis- ters in Chigago. Edith as associate (Continued on “Page Fives !a party, and then went there herself, | cK QUOTATIONS \ She left a note telling the super-| NEW YORK, June 20.-—Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7%, American Can 92, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel | %, Commonwealth and Suulhl-rn‘ Wright 5 General | o Curtiss %, t er 58%, Kennecott 32%, New York | |Central 14%, Northern Pacific 8% |United States Steel 47%, Pound | {8468 5-16 | _pow. o | The following are today Jones averages: industrials rails 27.68, utilities 24.12 ————— DISORDERLY Hans Rasmusson was arrested by | he U. 8. Marshal’s office yester- |day on a charge of disorderly con- | ‘du(‘t. i 5 AVERAC | | | Dow, | 13757, | i ast night. | intendent she was going out “for one last good time.” | Wardens said she had been des- pondent lately because of her health and failure to get parole considera- tion. - . BASEBALL TODAY | The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League Brooklyn 2; Cincinnati 4. Chicago 3; Boston 1. American League Chicago 3; New York 14, St. Louis 1; Boston 8. s 4 B PLA FOR WOODLEY Aboard the steamer Yukon here today was a new six-place Curtis Thrush plane for Art Woodley of Anchorage. TIENTSIN, June 20.—One Y- dred and twenty British women and childreny are evacuating the be- leagured British concession. . The party is levaing aboard a small British river boat for Tangku where the women and children will trans- fer to coastal steamers for Chine wangtao-Pehtaiho beach, on the coast, some 200 miles northeast of Tientsin, Many of the women and children boarded the steamer during - the night and others went aboard dur- ing today. e ——— CALLS ON DIMOND Following attendance at the Gen~ eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church recently held in Cleveland, Ohlo, Arthur A, Johnson, of Kake, Alaska, extended his trip to the East Coast. While in Washingten on June 6, Mr, Johnson called at the Delegate’s office,