The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1939. VOL. LIV., NO. 8152. RITISH THREAT QUIETS EURO BRIDGES IS COMMUNIST, SAYS MILNER Key Witne—s?;)f Govern- ment in Deportation Charges, on Stand IDENTIFIES AFFIDAVIT HE PREVIOUSLY MADE World War Veteran Tells of Plot He Heard- Discussed Offen SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 11. —Late yesterday afternoon, Harry Bridges, CIO chieftain on the Pa- cific Coast, was described as a “very able member of the Com- munist Party” by a witness called by the United States Government, who identified himself as Major Laurence A. Milner. Milner said he was a World War veteran and a retired officer of the Oregon National Guard Re- serves. | He identified as his, an affidavit| given in Portland on September | 22, 1937, in which he named Bridges | &s a Communist, and asserted that | as a ‘“‘confidential” Oregon Guard ! he associated with Communists for more than four years and on sev- eral occasions accompanied Bridges to Communist Party meetings. Hears of Plot Today, Milner, said to be the key Two ¥ ears of 8/6 SCALE FIGHTING ENDED War in China McNUTT IS NAMED FOR NEW OFFICE |President Nominates Indi- | ana Man as Federal Security Adm. WASHINFTON, July 11.—As exclusively announced by the Associated Press as cerfain to come, President Rocsevelt today nominated Paul McNutt to be Federal Security Administrator. McNutt is now American High Commissioner of the Phil- ippines. He indicated he will re« tain present post for several weeks to clear up details of his Commissionership. The nomination, if confirmed by the Senate, will bring into the Administration a Democrat whose candidacy for President in 1940 had been cpenly advo- cated by his friends. Whether President Roosevelt is giving McNutt a boost toward the Demceratic memination of President or whether he is proviGing him with a chance The shaded area shows what Japan has grabbed in China in a cam- | paign which was two years old July 7. To the south Japan also has made isolated conquest of ports and cities, but guerilla opposition has foiled complete control of surrounding territory. to show what he can do, is an argued point today. The former Governor of In- diana will head one of the three new agencies created un- der the plan of reorganization FIREWORKS MAY NOW BEIN of the Government and will give him control of the Secur- ity Board, CCC, National Youth Administration, and other agencies. The Free City of Danzig, | n thousands of Hitler’s followe: | st Prussia as “tourists.” Here is | WASHINGTON, July 11.—Repre- ! senfative Sam D. McReynolds, Democrat of Tennessee, Chairman Foff tha Foreign Relations already ninety-six percent German, ':’ rs, who poured into the Polish protectorat r Youth members marching across from East Prussia into Europe’s newest powder keg. PROMINENT DEMOCRATIC LEADER PASSES AWAY AT Proposed Line. HISHOME IN WASHINGTON MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS a squad of Hitle; Nazi “Tourists” Cross Bridge Into Danzig nazified further by arrival of thousands ate from Germany proper lnud the Mottlau bridge Union Blocks | Seattle-Orient Sailors Takfioie - Turn Down Hiring of Crews PRICE TEN CENTS PE'S ISOUE «F = UIENIN WAR CLOUDS CLEARING UP DANZIG AREA Diplomats Believe Defin- ite Stand of British Stops Trouble GERMANS, HOWEVER, ARE STILL DEFIANT {Declare Situation Became More Muddled, Nazi Statement (By Associated Press) Europe’s hopes for a peaceful solu- tion of the menacing Free City of | Danzig situation grew today on the strength of British Prime Minister Chamberlain’s stand on the Inter< national situation. Prime Minister Chamberlain said emphatically yesterday that if ag- gression on Danzig took place, Great Britain would aid Poland and war would be the result. It was taken that he meant just what he said, that if Germany grabbed Danzig it would immediately bring Great | Britain to Poland’s side. | There are some advances made | that Germany take over Danzig | provided the section would be de- militarized and also assure Poland of free use of the Vistula river port. Berlin statements are that Great Britaiu has only served to mugddle fie aimosphere rather than clear Far East Situation i o CHINA BUT DANZIG'S JUST deportation hearing against Bridg-| es, testified he heard of a Com- munist revolution plot, “described | in many speeches and conversa-! tions” of Communist leaders in the Pacific Northwest. “They spoke of building up an organization of labor unions and Causing labor strikes, then perhaps, in case of war, taking advantage of the situation by force and vio- . lence,” testified Milner. | prl(es Down Seattle Man Named | Under cross examination by At-| T l l I torney Audrey Grossman, of' Bridge's defense counsel, Milner| said Morris Rapport, of Seattle, an alien under deportation orders, | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, July 11. — Even while the headlines played on: Tient- sin and the diplomatic strip tease, State Department observers watched | Danzig. It has been the real trouble spot. | Japanese sentries stripping men and women of the British colony in Tientsin stir up the kind of hat- reds that were aroused in America by Spanish atrocities in 1898. Yet THE SPOT TO KEEP EYE ON "cer Tocimi, Committee and leader in the Demo- Party circles, died at his home. He had been ill off and on all of a year. The immediate cause | | ." ““from l{.fo. Office | | eratic { SEATTLE, July 11—L. L. Bates, | Manager. of the Pacific Northwest | Oriental Line, announced that he| The Far East situation also sprang into the limelight today with a pro- nounced ‘bang when Russia emphat- ically warned Japan to keep her hands off Outer Mongolia where of death is given as resulting from | an attack of the heart. | McReynolds had been in the Nav- al Hospital here for a month but TIENTSIN 1SSUE d {0 nad been permitted to go to his home recently. The Tennessee Representative was !a close friend of Secretary of State Conferences Are Slate Begin, Some Day, in | Tokyo, Is Report TOKIO, July 11.—The Govern- ment’s anti-British campaign was pushed today through Japan and Cordell Hull. He was active in| promoting the Administration mat- | !ters touching on all aspects of for- | eign affairs. Dry Law Procecutor There was a time early in the was one of the speakers referred the opinion generally held here iS the occupied areas of China in prep- that war will not grow out of the gration for the opening of negotia- Tientsin business unless there is tions o settle the Tientsin blockade public career of Samuel Davis Me- Reynolds when he was “afraid to L(frl\l.lil.ner declared that Rapport PfOSpedS fOI' Hllge SUf- factories, e e 0o “Gome| plus for July Delivery Causes Big Drop munist insurrection came. “Rapport’s spread of flowery program for Communists appealed o members of the Communist! Parly,”‘ said Milner. | CHICAGO, 1il, July 11. Communications with Angel Is-| World Whefi'j Prioen today kand, scene of the Bridges hearing lOWest levels for so early was disrupted for a time today season during the last six when the anchor of a Japanese Lislor ship, the Atu Tsan Maru, broke| The prospects are for a huge sur- the telephone and telegraph cables | Plus July delivery. Prices today when it was dropped into San|Aare 65% cents as compared with Francisco Bay. It took several hours |71 cents last year and $1.30 two to make repairs. years ago and 46% cents in 1932, JHALIBUTERS .o SELL, SEATTLE — The hit the in the or eight some event such as the “sinking of the Maine,” And both sides are guarding carefully against that. Neither Japan nor England wants war in the Orient. Japan could gain little from it and England nothing at all. In Europe the situation, as viewed here, has held ten times as much danger of real trouble, all along. A competent source tells us that advices from inside Germany sup- ported the occasional stories indi- cating that the Hitler regime is| again confronted by serious inter- | nal difficulties. Each time a “cri- is” came up in the past an aggre: ve program was possible that di- verted public attention from heavy internal burdens. SINISTER REMEDIES There is nothing sinister about these internal difficulties, although the Hitler government on occasion | British representatives in China co- | ©f the national house, a friend said dispute with Great Britain. {80 %oThed at night for fear that Conferences with the British rep- | Someone, trying to get me, might resentatives are scheduled to start|Pring down the whole house on my tomorrow, but the Japanese were | family. t still indefinite about their actually| That was while he was a criminal getting under way. | court judge at Chattanooga, presid- | Informed sources said that they | iD8 at trials of persons charged with | probably would nol. begin before | violating Tennessee's prohibition next Monday. laws. A spokesman said that the For-! Years later, after he had gone to cign Office and the Army had Washington as Representative from agreed on two broad demands; first, | the Third Tennessee District and that Britain pledges herself to strict | ltained prominence as Chairman neutrality in China; second, that 0f the Foreign Affairs Committee operate to remove what Japanese call of him that he “never had any fun.” difficulties resulting from Britai The friend hastened to add, how- previous pro-Chan-Kai-Shek policy.| ever, that he “always has been | Reports from North China said | happy, for the serious side of life that Japanese blue jackets broke appeals to him.” up a demonstration before the Brit-| Judge McReynolds had a reputa- ish embassy today in one of the|tion for ruling his court with a northern towns when a crowd start- | stern hand and hundreds of men ed throwing stones through win-| who broke the dry laws were sent dows of the embassy and adjoin- to Tennessee prisons. During his 20 | Prospects are that production on the Northern Hemisphere will be 3,530,000,00 bushels this year. SEATTLE, July 11.—Only hali- buters from the local banks sold | on the Seattle Fish Exchange today as follows: Antler 15,000 pounds, Mermaid 15000 pounds, at 7% and T%| cents; Eleanora 10,000 pounds, 7% | and T% cents. LEGION, AUXILIARY PLAN SALMON BAKE AT SKATERS' CABIN A salmon bake for members of Alford John Bradford Post of the American Legion and the Auxili- ary is being planned for late this week or early next week by Post Commander Bert Lybeck. The Post has in cold storage a dozen salmon caught last week by a plane load of visiting Indianapo- lis Legionnaires. The picnic prob- ably will be held at the skaters’ cabin, Lybeck said today. —— e FAMILY ARRIVES Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Molyneux and daughter arrived in Juneau on the Columbia. Molyneux is representa- tive of Swift and Company. They LUMBER STRIKE 1S COMPROMISED LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 11— The four-week-old Los Angeles lum- her strike neared settlement today when uion officials and employers reached a compromise agreement. The workers are scheduled to return to their jobs with a four percent pay increase. - STRIKERS FIGHT PONTIAC, Mich., July 11.—Fight- ing broke out this morning in front | of General Motors Pontiac plant, where several hundred skilled work- | ers are striking. A car window was broken during the fight but there were no serious injuries, Police arrested six men. The strike effects ten plants of General Motors in Pontiac, Cleve- land, Detroit and Saginaw. The Pontiac plant has been closed by corporation officials. e A $1,800,000 beet sugar factory is are guests at the Baranof Hotel. lplanmd at Winnipeg. years on the bench the moonshin- has met them by sinister methods. ing British-owned bulidings. But' the difficulties are the same|___ as confronted here and in other what they are supposed to be. Germany is having’ trouble rais- ing money to finance her con- tinued rearmament and her peri- odic mobilizations. Siegfried lines are not built for nothing. It is| known that Germany already is| spending taxes not yet collected. She is simply issuing tax IOU’s to continue the expenditure that keeps | her factories booming. Floating of | Commander W. K. Thompson, 31 government bond issues, SO €asy |years an officer in the United he;(;, ;5 foe fro:’r;];:syxsln g:;‘;;:‘};lstates Coast Guard, arrived in Ju- which g:: :es presented to the peo-‘ne““ aboard the Norgh Coast this ple of Germany to justify expenses, ;mommg_w assume his newly cre- the element of discontent present|ated position as head of the com- in every country is inactive. Ex_:hmfl_i Coast Guard and Lighthouse pansion “of Germany to include|Service in Alaska, neighboring German territory al-| Wllh him was C. W. Warmker ways has been a justification and | Chief Pay Clerk from the cutter can be again in the case of Dan_ilngham, which was Thompson’s re- zig. | cent command. Meantime German officiais are| Thompson said temporary quar- playing the ace card of “encircle- | ters of the new offices will be in ment” by the enemy, always a | the Baranof Hotel “until more ade- goad to rouse Teutonic blood. The duate arrangements are made.” threat of “encirclement” is as men-‘ As to the extent of the new office lacing to a German as violation of | duties, Thompson said he was “more ® or less in the dark.” “It will take us some time to get lCnnnnn;d on Page Seven) ot | ERER = G & nations in far less degree. Debts| grow and armament expenditures | mount and the tax revenues are not | | | organized,” Thompson said. haven't a typewriter, even.” Lighthouse Service Plans As to the Lighthouse Service| headquarters at Ketchikan being | | moved to Juneau, Commander lThompson said: “It is likely the administrative offices only will be | moved here, with the supply depot to remain at Ketchikan where the service has admirable docking fa- cilities.” Commander . Thompson entered the Coast Guard as a cadet in 1906 when the Coast Guard Aukdemy‘ was at Baltimore, Md. He was commissioned an ensign December | 22, 1908, and had the unusual dis-| tinction of being promoted to the | lcnqlinnvdinn page Six) gt “We| | | he married Miss Mary C. Daven- port. | | ers and bootleggers came to fcnr‘ and hate him. In 1923 McReynolds took his seat | in the national legislature. Two| years later he was assigned to the | important. Foreign Affairs Commit- | tee and became Chairman in De-| cember, 1932, upon the death of J. Charles Linthicum of Maryland. | Neutrality Bill Fighter Among the many committee measures fought through the House by McReynolds were the neutrality bill of 1935 and the subsequent measure which modified and ex- tended it. In 1933 he went as a member of the American delegation to the world economic conference at Lon- flon. He won praise then from Jos- eph W. Byrns, Democratic floor leader, a fellow Tennesseean and,| later Speaker of the House, who said: “Sam is probably the best| equipped man in the House to rep- resent this country at London.” The son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac S. McReynolds, he was born near Pike- ville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, April 16, 1872. On March 9, 1910, | A daughter was born to them. “Tennessee Twins” During his Washington years Mc~ Reynolds was a close friend of| Cordell Hull, Senator for Tennessee | and later Secretary of State. They | were together so often they became known as “the Tennessee twins.” Both were born on Tennessee farms and both went from the bench to seats in Congress. Both were quiet, reserved, studious. Among his associates McReynolds had a reputation for great courage and honesty. “He never scratched a ticket or violated the ethics of | his church or profession,” they said | of him, He was a member of the| Methodist Episcopal Church, Swth.(‘ As a youth McReynolds studied in the schools of his native county | and then entered People's College at Pikeville, later studying at Cum- berland University, from which he received his B. A. He read law in (Continued on Page Three) ] of the Sailors Union of the Pacific is not favorable to a compromise in the hiring hall controversy. As the result of this action, the Or- iental Line is doomed before a ship has sailed. The Maritime Commission re- cently ultimatumed the union must accept the plan that crews would be hired from the United States Shipping Commission’s lists by Tuesday noon or the contract to provide the proposed line from Se- attle to the Orient, would be re- voked, effective August 11. The liner Coldbrook Satartia has been tied up here for several weeks and two other ships are held in abeyance on the East Coast pending the outcome. ‘The proposed line would re-es- tablish the American Flag to the service between Seattle and the Or- ient, Uniory officials have not an- noumced the result of the vote and make no comment on the situation. CONTRACT CANCELLED WASHINGTON, July 11, — The Maritime Commission this after- noon cancelled the contract for the Pacific Northwest-Oriental lines under which it was intended to operate a steamship service be- tween Puget Sound and the Far East, The Commission has notified the company that operations are im- possible because of the refusal of the members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific to register for em- ployment with the United States Shipping Commissioner at Seattle B POLITICIAN IS FOUND GUILTY LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 11.— A prominent Los Angeles politician, Carl Pustau ‘has been convicted of perjury in ¢onnection with a county lobbying scandal. He now faces a possible ten-year scntence. He was a key figure in the Col. William Nebletts million dollar libel suit. - e~ R. E. De WITT IS IMPROVING R. E. DeWitt, Alaska Juneau mill employee who was injured last Sat- urday while at work, is reported to be much improved today. De Witt, who is at St. Ann’s Hos- pital receiving care for a fractured left arm and leg, has been resting easily and responding satisfactorily to treatment. Dr. Willilam P. Blan- ton is the attending physiciaz, | has been informed that the vote| .mem is under way, ! intermitten warfare has been going {on since May 11. The Russlan statement says that “insolent raids and Japanese pro- | vocatuers will end in war.” Dispatches from Tokyo indicate that the Japanese are holding their | positions as are the Soviet Outer- | Mongolians. ‘There is a report that there was (a heavy artillery and aerial warfare | yesterday on the Manchuokouan side of the Chalka river. Another Disput eCenter Dispatches from Rome state thai 15 Frenchmen and at least one Briton are reparted to have re- celved orders to leave Bolzano Pro- vince, Itallan Tyrol, immediately. Many others have left the section, presumably under orders, and also to beat the Italian Government's deadline for withdrawal of foreign- ers from the frontier areas bor- dering Germany. WPA STRIKE RIOT CAUSE OF 1 DEATH Policeman Beaten Severe- ly in Minneapolis-Wage Cut Is Responsible MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 11. —Patrolmon John Gearty, 40, died yesterday afternoon in a hospital as the result of a pummeling re- ceived during a WPA strike riot when he attempted to rescue a nonstriking worker on a sewer pro- Jject. It is estimated that 1,000 meleed in the streets, blocking trolley traf- fic. Police and workers were pelted with rocks and broken glass by the rioters. A physician sald Gearty died as the result of heart strain. The police finally restored order and the strikers were routed. FOUR BILLS APPEAR WASHINGTON, July 11. — Four bills have appeared in Congress restoring the former WPA basis and removal of all legislation which has caused rash strikes and dem- onstrations of workers all over the nation. The Alliance of WPA officials differ as to the number of strikes and whether a back-to-work move-