The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” So— Y VOL. LIV, NO. 8137. TWO HEADQU JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS ARTERS COMING TO JUNEAU U.S. Navy Rebuffs Japanese at Swatow REFU STS 10 [ Japanese Blockade Section GETOUT AT SUGGESTION Admiral Yarnell Informs. Japanese Asiatic Fleet fo Profect Lives SECOND WARSHIP ARRIVES IN PORT Japanese - British Dead-' lock in Ninth Day To- day at Tientsin (By Associated Press) | The United States Navy today in- formed the Japanese Navy American ships would remain in Chinese wat- ers “as long as American citizens need protection and assistance.” This frank message was conveyed to senior Japanese Naval authorities by Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet Admiral Harry Yar- nell after a Japanese move, either order or suggestion, aimed at getting foreign warships and nationals out ! of Swatow, South China port cap- tured yesterday by the Japanese. Yarnell said all American vessels would “go wherever it is necessary" at any time” to protect Americans. | Another U. S. Warship and increased guards about the effect a blockade, porary barrier between their con days. After first demanding Britain release four alleged Chinese slayers of a Tientsin, China, official, Japanese military widened their demands British and French concessions to Japanese and French guards are shown at a tem- cessions in the city during quieter r | BIG PROPOSAL MADE BY FDR 10 CONGRESS Over Three Billion Dollarj Program fo Stimulate Business Presented WASHINGTON, June 22.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today Two Killed in $250,000 Ice Plant Blaze | | | proposed to | Congress a $3,860,000,000 to stimu- | late business through self-liquidat- ing projects and low cost housing aevelopments. The President estimated that at least $870,000,000 would be dis- bursed at Federal loans starting July 1 and the remainder of the program, split into six types of | self-liquidating projects, would con- tinue fr two to seven years. The President said in taxpayers ome cent as far as the self-liquidating projects are con- cerned. * | The proposal to Congress made in a letter to Senator James F. Brynes, Democrat of South Car- olina, and Chairman of the Senate Unemployment Committee The projects proposed are divided into six groups — Federal works agency, public roads, railroad equip- ment projects, rural electrification, farm security, administration of foreign loans to promote American foreign trade. The destroyer Pope arrivéd at Swatow to join the Pillsbury, only American warship there. ‘When Japanese made known their desire that foreign ships clear the port the British, with the destroyers Scout and Thanet at Swatow, adopt- ed a similar attitude. These developments at Swatow switched the world’s interest from Tientsin where a Japanese blockade of the British and French conces- sions is In its ninth day. Sudden appearance of British bluejackets there halted Japanese cargo being discharged by British lighters. Be- sieged Britons were heartened by a message of sympathy and hope from the London government. | SURVEY, INT, CHANRTOVARE ecommends Proposal for I'"GHWAY To R Pa(ificN Sta'né!t“dtfio STARLSOON on Next Ballo Canadians, Americans, to Fly Over Proposed Routes Next Month A recommendation | Council that the question of turning | the clocks of Juneau permanently to Pacific Coast Standard time be placed on the ballot at the next | city election was passed unani- | mously by the Chamber of Com- merce todav. UNITED STATES ALREADY ~ IS PAYING BILLS ON WAR ' PassesSenate EUROPE HAS NOT STARTED By Voice Voe | to the City By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 22—Ran- |dom information service: | Three days before the King and | Queen of England met members of | Congress in the domed rotunda of | the Capitol, a bronze statue of Am- |erica’s great humorist Will Rogers, | |was unveiled there. a quizzical ex- | pression on his face, as if he were about to chuckle: | “God save the king.” His most quoted quip was: |won a conference. |won a cnnference. | “The | Note from the Navy's Hydro- | graphic bulletin: “Officer R. E. |Hudgins of the American Steamer Jean reports that on May 6 from 1800 to 2100 (Greenwich time—1 to |4 p.m. Atlantic coast time—while | between Barnegat and Scotland | lightships, on a passage from Port | St. Joe, Fla, to New York, a| Tax Revision Measure Goes Back fo House for Approval of Minor Changes BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, June 22.—Late this afternoon the Senate approved the busi- ness tax revision bill after vot- ing down an amendment to ex- tend the income taxes to more than 1,500,000 persons in the lower income brackets. The measure now goes back to the House for action on mi- nor amendments, The measure involves tax raising of about one billion six hundred million dollars in an- nual revenue, The final passage was by voice vote and no negatives were heard in the press gallery. was | | the long | run the program would not cost the | Two workmen died recently when an abandoned ice plant in Los Angeles caught fire menacing several hun- | dred thousand dollars’ worth of nearby buildings. Fire was believed to have started from welders sparks | which ignited tar during dismantling of structure. Spreading rapidly consuming flames ate their way to | the plant’s thick cork walls, Intensifying danger was “dead” ammonia gas, which gave the blaze a bril- Kiant orange hue, attracting thousands of motorists, Photo shows the four-alarm fire at its height. WALT MASON na's |KING, QUEEN | Louisiana’s PASSESAWAY ' Governorfo = BACK HOME; WELCOMED EARLY TODAY Resign Post ng’ Thousands Greet Royal' Couple-Liftle Princess- 'Huey Long’s Brother Moves in — Federals es May Now Come SOUTHAMP'I‘KL— June 22—King | in California Probing WPA Work George and Queen Elizabeth re-| SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 22. — BATON ROUGE, La., June 22— Walt Mason, 77, humorist and poet, An unheralded change of Louis- turned to British shores from a glit- tering North American tour amid died early today at his home in iana’s governors, elevating Lieuten- suburb La Jolla after an illness of lant Governor Earl K. Long, brother | lof the late Huey Long to the mq.}(:heprs of thousands of their nmudl subjects. several weeks. “Masc scame i1l 3 3 ays | as put this state in a political F Mason became ill a few days tion, has pu 5 i e e rian o Bilain 4 1/ up at the pier early this afternoon.| before his birthday on May 4. He whirl. is survived by his adopted daugh-| Gov. Richard Leche announced | . | J J g and | ter. Mary, Mrs, Mason died in|last night he would resign next| The two children of the King and 1936. week with near'y 11 months of his Walt Mason was one poet who| lerm unexpired. g was born and made. He was the| Although Leche gave ill health %5 | Were on the bridge tugging in ex- fifth of six sons of a Welsh father his immediate reason for resigna- | ijement at their father’s arm, and a Scotch mother, a combi tion, observers noted that the an-| O (i, Moy’ Cotse Humorist, Poet, Newspap- er Man, Dies at Home Queen, Princess Elizabeth, 13, and 1Marc¢m‘et Rose, 8, who earlier re- [ joined their Royal parents at sea,| COAST GUARD, LIGHTHOUSE, COMES HERE New Officm Be Estab- lished in Alaska for First Time IN CHARGE, 2 AGENCIES Another Office Is fo Be Transferred fo Capifal City from Ketchikan WASHINGTON, June 22. —The Coast Guard will es- tablish an office in Juneau, Alaska, July 1, in command of W. K. Thompson. The Headquarters of the Lighthouse’ Service, recent- ly brought under the Coast Guard by the Government reorganization plan, will also be in Juneau, officials said. The Lighthouse Service Headquarters, with Super- intendent.afLighthouses in charge, has been in Ketchi- kan. It is said that very prob- ably, the Lighthouse Ser- vice shops may remain at Ketchikan. Although the Coast Guard regularly patrols Bering Sea during the seal- ing season and other times and also maintains coast guard vessels at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova and Sew- ard, there has never been any headquarters in Alaska. MESSAGE FROM DIMOND Word of the ¢hange made in an executive order Tuesday was re- ceived here yesterday afternoon by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce from Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. His message was as follows: tion which gave him stabilily spiced nouncement followed 1 days| oy renorted that the King and| by a nimble wit {of almost continuous conferences | oueen’ gelighted beyond measure | Nearly Drowns paralleled by a ‘Federal investiga- | gien ™ 0 0t o adn and the | Thrown on his resources |tion of WPA activities in the state. | yniod States, are considering 8| Walt became a manual laborer. b el | similar trip for the two little prin- When he was thirteen a narrow es- cesses. Although the dates and cape from drowning left him with SupplEME“TAl details are necessarily vague, the own | defective hearing. The mishap had fri5 ik guvisloned for. the) An bdol a great influence on Mason's fu- distant future. ture for, with some of the world Princess Elizabeth, who recently WASHINGTON, June 22. — The Proposal that a vote should be| | taken on the plan was made by a|Mmirage was observed during which | DEBATE IS STARTED | special Chamber committee which |vessels met with at first appeared | WASHINGTON, June 22—Sena- | shut off from him his powers of ()b-k | servation became keener and he| turned within himself for much | celebrated her thirteenth birthday, | must do extensive traveling before | she becomes of age at 18 and be- “Order made yesterday for crea- tion of separate Alaska district for Coast Guard, with which the Light- house Service has been consolidated under the reorganization plan, with headquarters at Juneau for all of Alaska. Administrative offices will be moved to Juneau. No change contemplated in present Lighthouse Service organization, tender repair and machine shops, which will re- main at Ketchikan.” HOUSE OKEH [double with one International Joint Commission on | image inverted |tor Pat Harrison started the debate of the music his partial deafness| the Seattle-Alaska Highway will be- gin an aerial survey of routes north of Hazelton on July 8, Representa- | tive Warren G. Magnuson, Chair- man of the American Committee, announced today. Representative Magnuson said he has appointed James W. Carey, Se- attle engineer, to accompany the Canadian representatives on the flights which will probably require | about six days. From the data secured, a basis will be formed for discussion when the joint commission meets in Vancou- ver about July 20 to consider the route and financing of the project. PAVING BEGINS ON WILLOUGHBY AVENUE TODAY Willoughby Avenue paving start- ed today when the big concrete mixer of the L. J. Dowell Company began pouring a section from the Gold Creek bridge to the baseball park. The firm’s one-yard paver is lay- ing the street at a good clip. Traffic meanwhile is being de- toured around the Standard Oil plant and baseball park, reported that it favored the change in time to that in effect at Ketchi- kan, Seattle and other cities of the and smokestacks joined.” | Pacific Coast. The committee, headed by Curtis Shattuck, listed as arguments in |an extra hour of daylight in the | evenings for recreation in the sum- | mer, would allow an extra hour of the day for communication with Ketchikan or Seattle business houses, would simplify life for radio | fans by having programs come in at the times they are scheduled in directories and would do away with | confusion caused at present by Can- |adian steamers running on “ship time” which is one hour ahead of Juneau time, | Pro and Con | only arguments brought forward | in opposition to the plan, the com- mittee reported, were that it would | make tide tables an hour off for | the first season it is in effect (these | could be changed in the following iyear. as they were for Ketchikan) and would interfere with one of the | Alaska Juneau mine shifts. The committee reported it had inter- | viewed L. H. Metzgar, mine man- ager, and found he had no patricular objection to Juneau going perma- nently on Pacific Standard time. R. E. Robertson reported that a committee of which he is chairman (Cunfimlml on Page Seven) | favor of the plan that it would give | Dear Officer Hudgins: Did you | ever drive between two momrcyclas! lat night and find they were a| truck? WAR COSTS ALREADY ) costs in the United States. The |State Department has informed Con- |gress that cable tolls after Munich Iran $140,000 over the budget. It has also informed Congress that it has one typewriter 31 years old and a hundred or more which are beyond 16 years old, all of| |which it would like changed so it could be a little more up to date in | its method of writing diplomatic messages. And we can't overlook the air conditioning system installed in the legation at Bagdad which must| be mighty popular now, what with desert winds blowing hot the way they do. Incidentally, it is the only fone in the department. Even the !main building in Washington hasn't one. ’ | The foreign service also spends | $4594 for ice and drinking water in its various foreign posts. In some spots the water has to be (Continued on Page Five) tax revision bill. He said it would bring a measure of relief to busi- ness although “it does not go as far as I would like it to go.” Senator Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Pinance Committee, ex- corporation’s earnings of more than $25,000 annually. Leaders were fearful that a group |of Western Senators might delay action on the bill until the Trea Department announces the new do- mestic silver prices. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two Major Leagues: National League Boston 1; Chicago 7. New York 7; Pittsburgh 8. Philadelphia 5; St. Louis 11. American League St. Louis 3; Boston 7. Chicago 1; New York 5. Detroit 5; Philadelphia 6. Cleveland 5; Washington 8. LR, A bicycle powered by a small electric motor has been developed n Holland above the “other, and with masts early today on the House approved kept from him in the world with- out. This he reproduced in his | “rippling rhymes,” the prose poet- | ry which made him known virtually | | wherever newspapers are read H Series of Experiences | “It is probably due to this” he| |plained that the measure replaces once said in reference to his deaf- The war that hasn't started in|the existing undistributed profits ness, “that I never became a mer- Europe is already piling up war !X With a flat 18 percent levy on | chant prince.” In failing to become a merchant prince the prose-poet achieved in| his later life a position that put him on equal terms with them. A Sury | series of experiences was in storein the proposed expansion of the | cesses are sent for him that brought him into| touch with life in all its phases | Born in Columbus, Ontario, May |4, 1862, he left his boyhood home in 1880 and went to New York| state and took a job as a farm hand. He referred to it as “the poorest fun he ever had.” It was| 50 poor, in fact, that he soon tired {of it and took Horace Greeley's| | advice. St. Louis was west in those | |days and it was there that he took | !his first newspaper job. He went| | to work on a weekly humorous pub- | lication known as “The Hornet.” | In Newspaper Work | From “The Hornet” he went into | newspaper work in earnest. He held | positions on several middle western | | newspaapers and finally went to| |Emporia, Kansas, where he got a| job on Willilam Allen White's Ga- (Continued on Page Five) comes an integral part of the state| picture instead of a petted and adored member of the Royal Family, | as at present. To date the little| princesses’s travels have been lim- ited to England and Scotland. Not | even the future Queen has crossed 50 much as the English channel. Trip To Dominion Full S,SOO—PI;nes for Air Corps Kept Infact in Measure HOUSE HINTS PASSAGEFOR WASHINGTON, June 22. — The| Now the King and Queen House has passed and sent to the|planning, for the fut Senate the $292,000,000 supplemental | trip to the Dominion. Army appropriation bill after reject- | Such a trip would be by no means | ing Republican amendments which ' a ‘“royal tour,” with the panoplyf would have reduced by 1,283 planes |of a royal train. If the two prin-| to see the Newi | World, as their parents earnestly | desire, every effort will be made ES % {to keep it on the basis of a sight- | | ) | seeing tour. | w Their Majesties feel that a cou-| ple of Pullman cars, converted into NEW YORK, June 22 7cm§mggcommrtablv quarters, would do very quotation of Alaska Juneau mine well for their daughters, and such stock today is 7%, American Can|cPtourage as would be necessary.| 931%. American Power and Light 4%, | There would be no nonsense about Anaconda 237%, Bethlehem steell‘:]c“;‘;"‘;‘”c?" PalD. il e, the e 55%, Commonwealth and Southern B et | 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General| o . . 800 o | Motors 44%, Tntenational Harvester |, 4P ©F 1Y i ey 3 58, Kennecott 33, New York Central | 0% Pub they are under considera- 14, Northern Pacific 8%, Umted“"mn' Even though their Majesties are physically worn out by the States Steel 46%, Pound $4.68'%. strain of their long Canadian-Amer- s D . ican tour, they are so delighted with DOW, JONES AVERAGES the sweeping beauty of their great The following are today’s Dow,lqominion from coast to coast, that are ure queen, a| Army Air Corps to 5,500 planes. e i ALASKA BASE Fairbanks Still Appears fo Be Most Favored Choice for Army WASHINGTON, June 22, — The House has tentatively approved a $4,000,000 appropriation for an Army air base in Alaska. It is believed the base is planned for construction at Fairbanks, An Army Board is to leave soon for a flying trip to Alaska to make final selection of the site. At hearings, officials said Fair- banks was favored over other sites. The House is expected to vote to- day on the bill which carries the appropriation. ———— A Los Angeles man has a collec~ Jones averages: industrials 136.88, rails 2756, utilities- 24 (Continued on Page Five) | tion of more than 100,000 railroad, us and streetear tickets,