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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR — VOL. LIV., NO. 8157. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 4 1 7 1939 et s JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA GOLD PRODUCTION | LAST YEAR IS LARGEST YIELD IN NORTHLAND'S HISTORY; PLATINUM OUTPUT, RECORD WASHINGTON, July 17. — [ Alaska produced $28,60%,000 worth of minerals in 1938. This brings its total mineral production since 1880 to $777,- 818,000 to more than 100 times | the §7,200,000 the United States | paid Russia for the rich terri- | tory. | In 1938 the total was $1,618,- | 000 more than Alaska produced in 1937, | PICKET LINES ARE DEFIED; Gold, platinum, and coal pro- duction during the year was greater than during 1937 and that of gold was greater than any other year in the history of the terri The platinum production was mofe than 88 percent of the to- tal production of that metal in all of the preceding years, The figures have been released by the Geological Survey of the Interior Department. SEVERAL CANNERIES ARETO PACK FISH, KETCHIKAN AREA — Car! Fisher Passes Away, | Miami Beach Developer of Swamp Lands, Aufo Speedway, Dies at Age of 65 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 17. —Despite CIO picketing, the North- ern Fisheries Salmon cannery opened Sunday morning with a crew of men picked from local applicants, of which officials said there were an abundance. At the same time the CIO Oriental crew of the New England Fish Com- pany put up fish there when a picket line failed to materialize. Lee Christie of the CIO union said it was a mistake, that pickets dispatched to the New England plant to the wrong plant. Scattered fish showed up from the 12-hour legal fishing period Saturday but it was said yesterday that it would not be likely that much more fish would come in un- til 12 hours after fishing started at 6 o'clock this Monday morning. Late yesterday it was announced that another plant would start up this morning, picket line or no picket line, PLANS FLYING TO ANCHORAGE IN SIX HOURS Pilot Neese, in Seatle, Takes Off with New Beechcraft Star Airways, landed his five- place Beechcraft wheel plane at the Mendenhall Airport at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon and was to gas up and continue his flight to Anchorage this eve- ning. One stop was made en route, | at Prince George, British Co- | lumbia, to refuel. | SEATTLE, July 17. — Kenneth Neese, Alaska flier, left Boeing | Field at 7:11 o'clock this morning |on a projected six hour flight to Anchorage with a new plane pur- |chased in Los Angeles for a com- | mercial air service. | Accompanying Neese were his wife, daughter Betty, 12, and his sister- |in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Hammerstein, of Santa Ana, California. Neese, flying his new Beechcraft, made the trip from Los Angeles to Seattle yestrday in six hours and | thirty-five minutes. | For cargo, northward, he is carr; ing such things as corn on the cob, | Persian melons and green beans. Anchorage will welcome Neese with a special air show of all planes, flying formation, while Neese's new ! Beecheraft circles about them. AARON FRANK (COMES NORTH, SHARES BOUNCE UPWARD TODAY, HEAVY TRADING. Prices Soar from $1 fo 7-| Tape Runs Behind Transactions NEW YORK, July 17.—Buyers to= day plunged the stock market into such a fas tpace that the tape could not operate to the minute. Stock prices jumped from $1 to $71 a share before the gong rang with the tape then running several min= utes behind the transactions near the close of the day’s operations. Approximately 1,700,000 sharés | were sold, one of the largest trad=- ing sessions of the year | Optimism and lack of warlike news from Europe jumped the operations. Shares of steel companies went to the highest for the year. Rall- road traffic, which last week in- creased ahead of the previous week, helped the optimism Auto sales also forged ahead. Chrysler went up $650 a share w | i | | DEAN J. M. LANDIS to $82. Bethlehem Steel went to| 59'%, up 3% points, a new high.| pertunity to show why he should U. S. Gypsum went to $96, up $8.50, | ez | TODAY’'S PRICES | NEW YORK, July 17. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8, American Can 98%, | American Power and Light Labor Frances Perkins to preside of the Harvard Law School. - MANY CHANGES IN HOURS; - | PAINM(K IS RELIEVED Curtiss Wright General Moto: 47%, International Harvester 58 3-4,; Kennecott 367, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 9%, United | States Steel 50, Pound $4.68 5-16. DOW, JONES AVERAG The following are toda Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 142.58, rails 29.14, utilities 25.56. DISTRICT COURT 'PRESIDENT STILL Bridges’ Deportation Trial Isin Progress Deportation proceedings against Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO longshore chief, opened formally July 10 on Angel Island, San Francisco Immigration Station. cating overthrow of the U. S. government by force.” Thomas Shoemaker planned the government’s case against the labor leader. HARRY BRIDGES SHOEMAKER THOMAS Main point of hearing is to give Bridges an op- | not be deported for allegedly being a member of an organization adve- Chief Deputy U. S. Commissioner of Immigration Appointed by Secretary of over and act as special examiner in the case is James M. Landis, dean WPAWAGEFIGHT | 1S TAKEN DIRECT American F Labor We Pay fo Be Puf Back new Relief bill brings Democracy to - { By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, July 17. — The | THREE CANNERIES OPERATE | | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 17.—! Ip Three of nine canneries in the | city limits were able to open Sun- | day or this morning despite picket- | e by 010, {James. Richardson, An- | The Ketchikan Facking Com- JUDGES MAY GET | plANNING IHAT | the ranke of WPA labor with a jar- | ring impact. | No longer will a carpenter be able TRIp Io AI-ASK to earn his monthly allowance in a \huli-domn days of work at $11 to| R \CARL G. FISHER ! \ASSOCIATED PRESS & 5 MIAMI BEACH, Fla, July 17.— Carl G. Fisher, 65, pioneer develop- er of Miami Beach and one .of the original promoters of the Speed- way, is dead here. He also became an automobile race driver and or-| ganized the Indianapolis motor speedway as the American proving ground. Was “News Butcher” Carl Graham Fisher rose from obscurity to a commanding posi- tion as one of the nation’s success- | ful men of affairs, | Born in Greensburg, Indiana, | January 12, 1874, the son of Ida | Fisheries opened without pany opened this morhing with workers going through about 30 CIO pickets. Other plants without fish so made no effort to open today. The New England and Northern incident Sunday although the New England was picketed today with likelihood that its CIO workers will not go through the line when operations are resumed. Many plants will attempt to open Tuesday with supplies from to- day’s catch. SLIGHT QUAKE IS FELT EARLY TODAY, BERKELEY Dishes Raftle on Shelves, Chairs, Beds Reported fo Have Swayed were | | other Prominent Port- land Man, with Him KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 17— Aaron Frank, President of Meir and Frank, Portland department | store, and James Richardson, Man- ager of the Multnomah Stadium and Multnomah Athletic Club in | Portland, have arrived here, pleas- (ure cruising on Frank's cabin | cruiser Manana. | “Having a good time with no | plans,” said PFrank who recently |gave Portland a $32,000 “disaster | car” the only machine of its type |in_the world. | The men fished on the way | north, may stay here a few days ibe[ore going to Juneau, or may | return south direct from this sec- | tion. ) SOEST. 7 E Bullets Whiz, ~ Harlan Strife FATTENED TERMS Attorney General Asks for Eight-year Term Law in Alaska from Congress | WASHINGTON, July 17.—Attor-| ney General Murphy today request- | ed Congress to enact legislation which will extend the length of terms for District Court Judges in| Alaska. | Murphy said he has asked for the eight-year term for Alaska judges to make their terms uniform with other District Judges terms through- |out the United States Possessions, Terms of judges in Alaska District Couts are now four years. | \Ketchikan Couple | { | | ToWedinNevada RENO, Nevada, July 17.—A mar- riage license has been issued to Harry Fleming, 22, and Edna Jew- | $14 a day while the common labor- !vr toils throughout the month for Leaves When Congress|tne same money. p Under the present act, every Does_Ass' Se(y Chap_ !ly])(‘ of worker will work 130 hours | i 't |a month, regardless of whether he| H {is a shovel hand or plasterer. For man Comlng Nonh | that amount of work, each will be 'paid the same money—a country President Roosevelt still plans|average of about $61. definitely on coming to Alaska as| Certain exceptions are written soon as Congress adjourns, Alaska into the bill. For instance, in parts| Delegate Anthony J. Dimond noti- of the country with lower living fied Gov. John W. Troy's office |costs, the rate of pay will be lower.; today. The trip is still “on” unless| Further, a single man with no Congress should stay in session dependents will be allowed less| very late, Dimond’s message said. (ber month, and will work corre-| Assistant Secretary of the In-|spondingly fewer than 130 hours terior Oscar Chapman is coming|t0 earn it. here early in August and will re-| b 55 A main until after the President's|A PAIN IN THE NECK visit, the same message said. The disparity of wages between PG i skilled and unskilled workers has| been a pain in the neck to the WPA FoREsTER (REw administration ever since the idea| |of paying the “prevailing wage” to| puTS ouT HRE,WPA workers was invented more than two years ago. i | vent WPA wage scales from un- crew of the Forest Service ’“u”Ch!deymining the wage scale of labor F_‘oresl,er in the course of a rou-‘in private industry. tine cruise. The quester returned | gince a man working on WPA | to Juneau last night. Asslslant‘js allowed to earn only a certain! District Ranger Paul Judge made suym each month, his rate of pay Graham and Albert H. Fisher, BERKELEY, Cal, July 17. — A young Pisher early revealed the gjignt quake which ratled dishes, | 5 traits that enabled him to attain swayed chairs and beds back and| HARLAN, Ky, July 17. — Brig. remarkable success in middle age. forth early this morning is record- |Gen. Carter, National Guard Com- ett, 22, both of Ketchikan, Alaska.!the trip. | might be high enough to permit | |him to earn it in eight or nine| |days. He was free all the rest of |the month. He attended the proverbial little red schoolhouse until he was 12, ed only as a slight shock. Seismograps at the Universities | mander, said Bill Roberts, 35, idle {union coal miner, shot and killed and then obtained his first job as of California and Santa Clara began | Willie Fee, 36, a miner. “news butcher” on a narrow-gaug.|registering the earth movement at| railroad, getting his initial glimpse of the outside world through soot- | grimed windows. 5 | After experience in a book-shop and bank, where he learned the rudiments of finance, he entered the bicycle industry and soon achieved fame as a racer about| the time he was establishing a profitable business in Indianapolis as manufacturer and dealer. Financial Climb Organization of the Prest-O-Lite Company in 1904 marked the be- | ginning of Fisher's financial climb. This uncertain venture, started with a modest capital of $10,000, made Fisher a fortune before he relinquished control several years ago. | It was in the same year that he gained added prominence nation- ally by piloting an automobile around the old Harlem dirt track | for a world's record of two miles in 2:02 minutes. After witnessing the sad defeat of American auto- mobile drivers abroad a year lamr‘ he returned and established the famous Indianapolis Motor Speed- ) TR (Continued on Page Seven) 1:25 o'clock this morning. j e B LT. ROLLINS T0 JOIN BYRD TRIP Haida Officer Assigned fo Northland for Antarc- tic Voyage Lt. Glenn Rollins, of the cutter Haida, has received the distinction of being included in the officer’s personnel of the cutter Northland for Admiral Richard Byrd's Ant- arctic expedition. The news, received today, means that Rollins will leave Juneau within two weeks to join with him. The Northland, built originally for ice work, has been detailed to Byrd's expedition for six months, leaving Boston in October. the | Northland at San Francisco, his | wife sailing to the Bay Region| Roberts is being held for question- {ing. 'DAVE HOFFMAN IS J BACK IN JUNEAU | t David Hoffman, representative of |Alaska Mine Equipment, returned | on the Columbia from a two-month | trip through the Westward and In- ‘t,erior. Hoffman covered all of the rail- {road belt and considerable of the interior. Mining activity in the Fairbanks district, he said, is “hold- ing about normal,” while the most | promising area visited was in the | Willow Creek district out of An- |chorage; where Hoffman said “things look very good.” Expecting to remain in Juneau for several days, Hoffman is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. o — TWO OUT ON GEORGE Two passengers sailed on the | steamer Prince George early Sun- ‘day morning from here for Prince Rupert. They, were John Ivanick and A. Farino, Canadian citizens. CAPITAL CONFUSION PUTS CONGRESS IN SOMETHING OF A 'HELLUVA FIX' RIGHT NOW By MORGAN M. BEATTY [lhc cracker barrel in the village AP Feature Service Writer | store, eagerly awaiting the latest WASHINGTON, July 17. — The| newspaper account of the tide of | Senate had sweated through a night | pattle in the Russo-Japanese war. long session on unemployment relief | They were especially interested in and the money question. The House | what was happening to the forces had just put over a neutrality 1aw | of the Russian commander-in-chief, with an embargo on arms. All Was| General Kuropatkin. The paper confusion. |came. Spread out in type three Tired Senator Bennett Clark of | inches high was the headline, “Ku- | Missouri was leaving the chamber |ropatkin's position Status Quo.’ in the early morning hours when| “Reading and re-reading the ac- he was stopped for a question. count under the headline provided “Where, he was asked, “does the no clue to just what was a “posi- night’s work leave the Senate?” | tion of ‘status quo. When the vil- “In status quo,” was the response, lage school teacher arrived, they with a wry smile. | promptly put it up to him. “And what,” he was pressed, “does | “Unwilling to expose his own hazy that mean?” | notions, he assumed a knowing air “Young man,” replied the Senator, and pontificated: “did you ever hear the story of the | “A technical explanation probably cracker barrel and the Russo-Jap- | would be above your heads. But, in anese war? | everyday language, the general idea “All right; you asked for it: “The boys were gathered around (Continuea on Page Four) { ministrator, told Congressional com- | mittees that a man with such free| | time would offer to work in private | industry at cut wage rates, and thus | |tend to break down the very wage scales the old terms were supposed to protect. | He called it chiseling because it (hurt wage scales and because it | tended to keep men on relief who, if harder pressed, might have got- ten out into private employment. | The new provision will keep WPA workers on duty most of | each month, regardless of their skills. Harrington said that men compelled to work 130 hours on re- lief for an amount they could earn in private industry in far less time would likely get out and hustle for | private jobs. ' Colonel Hanington, WPA ad-| | | | OTHER DIFFICULTIES And the old provision caused other troubles, Harrington explained. | “An example of the difficulties jinvolved in scheduling operations |as a result of the differences in the hours of work for different classi- fications is afforded by a building | | construction project in Pittsburgh. | | “Bricklayers are permitted to| work only 48% hours per month| (By Associated Press) American Federation of Labor officials in Washington are today pressing a fight to restore the prevailing wage scale for the WPA. The AFL officials today carried the appeal direct to the Capitol. President William Green headed the committee and arranged for calls on Speaker Bankhead and | Representative Rayburn, House Ma- | Jority leader. The committee planned next to| g0 to Vice-President John N. Gar-| ner, presiding officer of the Sen- ate. Harry Bates, President of the| Bricklayers Union, said the com- mittee hoped to learn why a group | lead by Senator James E. Murrny“ “cooled off” on proposing an | amendment to end the controver- | sial 134 hour work month required under the new Relief Act. URGE DEWEY T0 TAKE PLATFORM NEW YORK, July 17—Political friends are urging on District At- torney Dewey the advisability of making a speaking tour in the chief population centers this au- tumn, and that his subjects deal with some of the outstanding pub- lic issues. As Mr. Dewey has been spoken of as a Republican presidential possibility, such a tour would be interpreted as a bit of 1940 fence building. Mr. Dewey, whose gangster- busting achievements has made him a national figure, and who feels convinced that he will yet make the White House, is believed to be favorable toward the pro- posed platform tour. DON MacMILLAN SAILS FOR ARCTIC BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine, July 17—The Arctic Circle has lured 64-year-old Lieut. Comman- der Donald B. MacMillan on his 18th expedition into the north. Continuing a search for new sci- entific and physical horizons, the CRISIS NEARS, BRITAIN, JAPAN — AR CONFERENCES ON FAR EAST ISSUES FAIL | Relations Further Embi- tered by Demands | Made by Nippon 'BRITISH WILL NOT BACK DOWN, CHAMBERLAIN Foreign Pofic? Not to Be Dictated to by An- other Power (By Associated Press) | Informed sources are unanimous | in predicting failure for the Brit- ish-Japanese conference on TFar Eastern questions which have em- bittered relations of the two Powers. Talks scheduled for today In Tokyo were postponed until Wed- |nesday to permit London time to reply to reports sent by Britisn Ambassador Craigie as the result of the first conference session held last Saturday. Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that Great Britain “would not and could not “reverse her foreign policy in |the Far East at the “demand of | another Power." The statement referred to re- !ports that Japan has made such demands as a condition for open- ing formal negotiations concerning the Japanese bl le of the' Brit« ish' concession at "Tientsin. BRITAIN, FRANCE COORDINATNG ON MILITARY FORCES Both Nations Conferring with Allies on Euro- pean Affairs (By Associated Press) Great Britain and France in coordinating military forces against the eventuality of war in Europe, are extending their Army Staff talks with two of their allies, Po- land and Turkey. The new Inspection General of the British Overseas Force Major | General Sir Edmund Ironside, has {left London for Warsaw for dis- cussions with Polish authorities. French Army Staff officers have arraged talks with the Turkish military experts at Ankara regard- ing defense plans. These talks start tomorrow. The discussions will be on the French-Turkish pact. At the same time, British Sec- retary of War Hore Belisha and a number of high British officers started a tour of anti-aircraft de- fenses in the northeastern part of England in preparation for a mock raid of 100 French planes, prob= ably tomorrow. Alr defenses are quickly being manned in numerous sectors. Vancouver Drug Co. Sell fo Cunningham; Now 9!"_ 36 Stores VANCOUVER, B. C, July 17. — Announcement is made of the pure chase of the Vancouver Drug Com- pany’s 23 stores by the Cunning- ham Drug Stores, the sum involved being half a million dollars. The stores owned by the Vancouver Drug Company are in Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo, New Westmin- ster, Chilliwack and Penticton. The new organization will own and operate a total of 36 drug stores. The Cunningham company is an old established concern. WAYNOR SELLS HIS explorer and a crew of college stu- dents trimmed Commander Mac- Millan’s 80-foot auxiliary schoon- er, Bowdoin, here for the start of a 6,000-mile, 11-weeks' cruise to Disko Bay, birthplace of: ice- bergs on the west coast of Green- land. while the hod carriers work 63'% J (Continued on Page Two) l HOME TO CAMPBELL Robert Douglas Campbell purchas- ed from Charles Waynor, through the office of Faulkner and Banfield, the house at the cormer of Glacier Highway and Behrends Avenue in the Waynor tract. The house sold The expedition will study the |Das been the home of Mr. and Mrs, movement of great glaciers there. Waynor, »