The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8142. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1939. D PRESS PRICE, TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATE BRITISH, JAPANESE ARE TO ARBITRATE NAVY PLANES | MAKE FLIGHT TO HONOLULU Fifteen m Bombers Safely Cross Pacific | from San Diego SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 28—Fif- teen Navy flying boats, carrying 105 officers and men, began a flight to H ii late yesterday expecting to arrive after a §9-hour flight, called a regular delivery of planes to new bases. The planes are protected by a line of destroyers, mine sweepers and cruisers strung across the Pacific. | J | 1 ARRIVE AT HONOLULU HONOLULU, H. I, June 28.—Fif- teen Navy bombers enroute from His Papers Are Anti-Japanese San Diego to Honolulu appeared pgjice officers of the French concession in Shanghai seize issues of the merican-owned Chinese language newspaper Ta Mei Pao, which was over Pearl- Harbor at 8:50 o’clock this morning (PST) in clear weath- er The first plane of the mass flight started from San Diego yesterday afternoon shortly before 4 o'clock and landed at 8:51 o'clock this morn- ing. The other bombers descended in succession. The mass flight was led by Lieut. Comdr. Sam La Hache, commanding Patrol Squadron VP-1. .- Tony Galenlo Is Ready for Champ Louis ? Two-Ton Fighter Will Have | 33-Pound Advanfage | Over Bomber 1 NEW YORK, June 29.—Two-Ton Tony Galento will have a 33-pound | ¥ weight advantage when he steps' into the Yankee Stadium ring to- night in an attempt to lift the heavyweight crown from Joe Louis. Galento weighed in at 233% pounds while Louis tipped the scales at 200% pounds this afternoon. Galento was the first arrival at the office of the New York State Athletic Commission and had to wait about 20 minutes for the heavyweight champion to arrive. anned by the Shanghai municipal ment for publication of a speech made by Generalissimo Chiang K: in Chun, council of the international settle- i-shek gking. FACTION OPPOSING GIANT IR FORCE GETS IN SOME HARD LICKS IN THE HOUSE FOREIGN SILVER PRICE IS SLASHED; TREAS. DEPT. ACTS White Metal Purchases to Be Tabooed by U. §. After July 1 WASHINGTON, June 28— The Treasury Department has cut the | price of foreign silver from 44 to 3812 cents an ounce. This is the second reduction in as many days and followed the new | policy of the Treasury inaugurated within 24 hours after the Senate voted to forbid further purchasing of foreign silver by the Treasury af- i ter July 1. Hopes for Knockout Tony said he hoped to knock out the Brown Bomber. “If I am cut, it will just be by an accident,” said Galento. “Let me win this fight and I'll buy a farm on the Orange Mountains where I really will enjoy myself . T am out to win. I am not afraid of the negro, perhaps the only man to ever step in the same ring with him who has not been afraid. You need not bet on me but T am fighting, however, to support | the thousands ‘of fans who believe | 1 will win.” | No Prefight Jitters | Tony said that as proof he did| not have the prefight jitters, he shaved himself and his hands were steady on the razor. Julian Black, one of Louis’s co- managers said he and trainer Jack | Blackburn, and Larry Amity Man- | iff, a seaman, will be in Louis's corner. | The fight gets under way about,‘ 6 oclock, Pacific Coast Time (5| o'clock Juneau time). The fight is scheduled for 15! PHILIPPINES SAFE FROM JAPAN, VIEW Gen. MacArthur Argues) Conquest Would Cost Five Billions MANILA, P. I, June 28.—General Douglas MacArthur, military advisor | to the Philippines, today reiterated his belief that conquest of the is- lands by Japan would be too costly in men and money and added, “I see no reason for predictions of a bloody future and possible destruc- tion of an independent Philippine By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 28—The principal cooling influence on the ardor of the House for big military is Rep. Ross A. Col- ssippi who considers the administration has been fright- ened off the deep end on its air program. He is a member of the House subcommittee on War Department appropriations and used to be chairman of it. The hazards of politics took him out of office in 1935 so he lost his seniority and the chairmanship went to Representa- tive Snyder of Pennsylvania. Nevertheless Collins packed enough influence in the committee to win at least a technical modifi- cation of the big air program. And | throughout the hearings on the supplemental military appropriation bill he was a persistent gadfly in questioning of Army officers. He obtained an admission from General Craig, army chief of staif, that he was “not in on” designing the expanded air program, al- though he now approves it fully. ‘RESERVE’ IDEA ATTACKED As part of its program for 5,500 airplanes, the Air Corps estimated that approximately 40 per cent, or 2,200 of them, would be held in re- serve for emergency. be used while the “active” planes were in the repair shops. Supported by some Republican strength on the committee, partic- ularly by Representative Powers of New Jersey, Collins proposed that only a small portion of this 40 per cent reserve Be built. He painted a picture of fields of idle airplanes | growing obsolete month after | month, spoiling in the sun and rain. How could the Army come | forward with demands for newer | types in a year or two years from | now while its fields were full of un- |used models of the present pro- | | gram. | Collins and company proposed |that the 2200 reserve planes be rounds, maybe. The attendance is nation if the present national de-|built only if the President consid- expected to reach 50,000 and the|fense plan is earnestly and thorough ered them necessary for military receipts are estimated at $400,000. | Division of Receipts | ly carried out. “It is a matter of serious doubt defense. the argument. They got part way with The Army explain- Louis will get 40 percent and | whether an enemy could concentrate | ed that it had already ordered 560 Galento 17'% percent. The odds when the two men enter the ring will probably be on Louis as the favorite at from 1 to, 6 up to 1 to 10. After the usual physical test at the weighing-in, Dr, William Walk- | er, commission physician, declared pine area. His chances of victory, therefore, would be problematical at best.” General MacArthur expressed his opinion an invasion of the Philip- pines would cost the enemy half a | million men and more than $5,000,- that both men were in fine condi- | 000,000 tion and added that Galento seem- ed a little keyed up but Louis main- tained his customary composure. Galento's pulse counts before the exercise were 78 and 84 and Louis| was 68 and 76. | .- TO BUY BOAT Fv‘:(‘:z Yere advertised today by the| BERLIN, June 28—Great Britain foot boat with three horsepower in- | has sent a note to Germany which board motor. The bids are to be| Officlals said expressed a willing- opened here June 29. Full specifi- | NesS to discuss a new British naval cations may be obtained from Har- | treaty to replace the 1935 treaty ry Sperling, Administrative Assist- which Chancellor Hitler denounced ant, two months ago, - BRITISH WILL DISCUSS NAZI NAVAL TREATY | superior forces at any vital Philip- | pursuit type planes and if the whole reserve were withheld the air | force would be unbalanced with too | many pursuit types. | A compromise was reached by which 1,007 of the reserve numbers should be built, leaving to the | balance of the 2,200 should be add- | |ed later. CUT ‘TRIAL ORDER’ FUND The same Collins group on the | committee succeeded in cutting the | | “educational orders” appropriation ! from $33,000,000 to $14,250,000. As amended, the bill has to sur- vive both the House and Senate, where there persists a really solid | body of preparedness fervor. | Powers tried but missed by a| mile, in an effort to get General Craig to agree that the war danger (Continued on Page Three) LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE IS - PASSING OUT -Waesche Will As- sume Direction WASHINGTON, June 28.—The old colorful Lighthouse Service passes out of existence as a separate unit of the Government on next Satur- day, July 1. | A General Order issued by the "I‘reasury Department sets up thir- s teen districts in joint cooperation | with the Coast Guard. Rear Admiral R. R. Waesche, ECoasL Guard Comr |sume direction of the Lighthouse |service, a post now held by H. D. | King. | Districts include Seattle, as head- |quarters for Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, and | Juneau as headquarters for all of Alaska. 'YANKEE CLIPPER IS NOW SOARING " ACROSS ATLANTIC | A {Has 32 Men Aboard-Also First Mail on Regular Plane Schedule BOTWOOD, Newfoundland, June 28.—The Yankee Clipper has start= led on the inaugural mail flight | across the north Atlantic. Aboard the Clipper are 32 men and the first mail to be carried across the northern part of the ocean on a plane flying on a regular sched- ule. | - eee— DIXIE CLIPPER INAUGURATING OCEAN SERVICE ‘Roars Qut from New York | Base on First Flight Over Atlantic i i | | Merged with Coast Guard; mandant, will as- | i | arrived at Antwerp, refugees will be taken in by Belgium, the Netherlands and Great Britain until a permanent haven is Photo flashed by cable from London to New York. BILL TO EXTEND TIME FOR ANNUAL ASSESSMENT WORK l CHAMBER MAN VISITING HERE AFTER ORIENT ys Conquering of China Is Too Big a Job for Japanese Nation [ Sa C. R. Rose, Field Secretary for the United States Chamber of| Commerce, arrived in Juneau on | the steamer Columbia from Ketchi- | WASHINGTON, June 28.—An at- tempt to force immediate action on legislation granting pros pectors a 90-day extention of time in which to commence thefr annual development work required of hold- ers of unpatented mining claims, is planned by Senator James E. Mur- ray of Montana. Representative Utah, has secured action House, Senator Murray said: “This bill simply extends the time within which,a locator of a mine must be on the claim and ready to work, from July 1 to October 1. It does not suspend work and does not cost anything.” Representative Murdock said the reason for the legislation is because Abe Murdock, in of the Senate | PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y, kan where he has been contacting June 28.—The Dixie Clipper, 41-ton | business men for the past ten days. Boeing-built flying boat, roared out | | President the decision whether the | into the sunlight at 11:10 o’clock (PST) this morning inaugurating | the regular trans-Atlantic passenger service between the United States and European centers. Twenty-two paying passengers A few would | and a crew of 11 men are aboard | | the Dixie Clipper bound for Horta, | Lisbon, Marseille and Southampton. STATES MUST HELP PAY ON WPA PROJECTS Senate Writes Info Relief Bill Cerfain Require- menfs Now WASHINGTON, June 28. — The Senate today wrote into the billion, seven hundred and thirty-five mil- lion dollar relief bill the require- ment that states and their political subdivisions contribute 25 per cent of the aggregate cost of their WPA projects. The vote was 51 to 24. NEW OPERATORS FOR AACC HERE Three new operators for the Al- |aska Aeronautics and Communica- tions Commission arrived in Juneau on the steamer Columbia. They are Carl Johnson, Homer | Walter Shane and Louis Almer Danes, guests at the Hotel Juneau. They will receive preliminary in- struction work here and be assigned to undecided posts throughout the Territory. ., Luminous beetles are carried by certain natives of South America when they journey at night, Rose is making his first trip in six years to Alaska to make his occasional contact visit with Cham- bers of Commerce and business| | men of the Territory. A guest at the Baranof Hotel, he expects to spend about two weeks in Juneau. His job that of a wanderer’s, contacting business men wherever | American commerce goes, Rose re- | turned from Japan and China a month ago. Japan Gets Surprpise | Japan, Rose said, has been given | a surprise in the war on China. “They expected to take over China in the first couple of months | of fighting, but after two years of fighting, it still looks like China will never be conguered. It's too big for the Japanese and there are too many Chinese. China has wur? supplies enough to last another two | years, and they're still getting ship- | ments.” | Japan itself, Rose said, appe as usual to the traveler, exc that “you don’t see young men | around.” | How long Japan’'s military group can continue the war is unguess- able, Roose said. “Their trade with the world is still pretty good,” he| said, “But all Japanese busine | men deplore the whole thing.” And normal though Japan may appear, China is in bad straits, ruined by fire and shell, and “up- river” business crippled by Japan- | | | |a “lot of consternation” has been | caused by the Interior Department by the statement that claim holders have to perform development work by July 1 or lose their claims. Ac- tually, however, the westerner ex- plained, this is not the case. Mur- dock said the mining law ‘merely requires the holder must start work by noon on July 1 and prosecute diligently thereafter until the work is completed. Representative Murdock further said: “Locators of claims do not know where they are as a result of the Department’s statement. This bill gives them an additional 90 days | to get on the claims and go to work.” - LONGSHOREMEN HANDLE CARGO ALL BAY DOCKS ** Thirly-one Hundred Wharf| Workers Back on Job After 10-day Tieup SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 28. More than 3,100 longshoremen plied cargo hooks to clear the cargo jam for 40 ships left idle in Bay ports by the 10-day waterfront tieup. New friction between the CIO ON CLAIMS IS EXPLAINED (,, | | | es¢ monopoly. men and employers which devel-| | | Inland Business Cut | “Business is good in Shanuhat} itself,” Rose said, “But there is ab-[ solutely no business up the rivers inland at all, and that is what the | foreign business man and Chinese business man depends on. the bitter evidence of war is dis- | cernible in the ruins of the once | prosperous industrial section.” Regardless of conflict in the| Orient, however, Rose said Ameri- | can business with the Orient Is | (Continued on Page Three) | oped when only a fraction of the workers turned up for duty, was quickly ironed out by Wayne Morris. Morse has resumed arbitration of the disputes between the Ship Refugees Find Haven at Last L L. N. Cablephoto Some of the 907 Jewish refugees from Germany who have been tossed about the Atlantic and Caribbean for weeks while seeking entrance into Cuba or Mexico are shown at the rail of the liner St. Louis, as they Belgium. Their joy at finding sanctuary at last clearly shows in their faces. The found, HOUSE, SENATE IN'BITTER 60, FOR'S POWERS failment of Monefary Authority Trouble- some lssue WASHINGTON, June 28-—Ad- ministration leaders beat down all Republican opposition in the House to keep the way open for possible compromise on the Senate's drastic curtailment of Presiden{ Roosevelt’s monetary powers. Rallying an overwhelmingly Dem- ocratic support, the Administration leaders won the vote to send the aneasure to a conference with the Senate for conflicting versions in the bill to extend the President’s power beyond next Friday midnight the expiration date. The vote was 209 to 61. The House Leadership knocked down by a vote of 216 to 184 the Republican move for im- mexiate concurrence of the Senate limitation: I "(losed Town' For Seattle Is Proposed Prosecutor?s?ues Order- Police Chief, Sheriff Make Statements SEATTLE, June 28—The brunt for the enforcement of Prosecuting Attorney Warner's drastic “closed town” on a blue law order, appears to fall on his own shoulders. Both Chief of Police Sears and Sheriff Severyns said they are ready to cooperate with the Prose- cutor in serving warrants or mak- ing investigations but will initiate no moves of their own to close theatres; baseball games, Long Acres race track or other such en- terprises on Sundays. D JOHN DEVINE TAKEN T0 SEATTLE HOSPITAL SEATTLE, June 28.-—Jack Jefford arrived here at 11:15 o'clock last night on a flight from Nome with the | Clerks Association, longshoremen af-| John Devine, mine operator, who filiate, and their employers over |Was immediately taken to the Vir- ican-Hawaiian Company. .- MINING MEN THROUGH George Rey and O. M. Grant, oldtime mining men, wei passengers on the Columl headed back into the Interior for|husband, the season’s operations, | | | Across the Sooghow at Hongkew,|ten clerks employed by the Amer-|8inia Mason Hospital for medical treatment. e eee — TO NOME Mrs. E. E. Roberts is aboard the re through | Columbia, going to Anchorage and bia today,|planning to fly to Nome to join her | sound conservation plan” in the associated with Aviator Hans Mirow, also| TIENTSIN BLOCKADE DISCUSSED Two Nations Are fo Form- ally Get Together on Big lssue ' ANNOUNCEMENT IS | MADE FROM TOKYO 'Other Subjects Will Be Ne- gofiated, According fo Nipponese LONDON, June 28.—Prime Min- ister Neville Chamberlain an- nounced today in the House of Commons that negotiations will | start immediately in Tokyo to “ef- | fect a settlement of the various con- | ditions relating tg Tientsin." | The Prime Minister said that in view of Japan's agreement, the Brit- | ish Government assumes that Jap- | anese treatment of British men and | women, which last week Chamber- |lain called “intolerable and insult- | ing,” would cease. | Earlier the British Cabinet had | received news of Japan's readiness | to open negotiations and this con- | firmed Chamberlain’s statement to | the House of Commons. DISCUSS EVERYTHING TOKYO, June 28~—The Japanese Government, announces formally that it will negotiate with Great | Britain in Tokyo on arbitration of the two weeks' old dispute at Tientsin: | The Japanese are determined, | however, to go further and nego- | tiations will also include the ques- | tion of British support of Chinese currency. S e | | | | FIGHT HOME RUNS MADE N1 GAME Yankees Slgii;r 0Old Rec- ord when Defeat Ath- lefics _2_3_ fo.2 (By Associated Press) In the first game of a double- header this afternoon, the New York ‘Yankees beat the Philadelphia Ath- letics by a score of 23 to 2. The Yankees also beat the rec- ord which has stood since 1886 for seven home runs in one game in a Major League contest. The game today shattered the rec- ord when the Yankees clouted out eight circuit drives, DiMaggio led with three home runs, I Stock QUOTATIONS l NEW YORK, June 28.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 92%, American Power and Light 4, Anaconda 22%, Bethlehem Steel 52'%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5, General Motors 42%, International Har- vester 54'4, Kennecott 32, New York Central 13%, Northern Pa- cific 7%, United States Steel 45, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 132.84, rails 26.82, utilities 23.29. NEW FISHERIES PLAN S URGED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 28. —Recognizing by implication the recent presence of Japanese fishing vessels in the North Pacific, the American Fisheries Society has pass=- ed a resolution urging Canada and the United States to “eventuate a west coast fisheries of the two coun~ tries,