The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 18, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8158. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e————— JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1939. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ' TWO TROUBLED SPOTS WORRYING WORLD “Wi rong Way” but Right Girl! CONFERENCE ON TONIGHT Important filering WiII; Be Held with FDR at White House WASHINGTON, July 18.—An ex- traordinary night conference at the White House has been arranged by the Administration. Senate leaders indicate that the purpose is for weighing final chanc- |+ es for neutrality revision at this session. | The conference s scheduled for 8:30 o'clock tonight and it is au-| thoritatively reported that those | gathering at the conference table | will be President Roosevelt, Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull, Senators Barkley and Pittman and also- three Senate Republicans, McNary, Borah and Austin. Invitations to the Republicans are reported to have been made by tele- phone by Barkley. Senator Austin said ‘it understanding that the President NEUTRALITY i was his and Secretary Hull wished to learn individual views of the members in an effort to obtain for the Admin- istration a revision of the neutrality law before adjournment. However, Senator McNary, it is reported, has made an informal poll | of Republican sentiment on the is- | sue regarding possibility of neutral- | ity action and it is said this dis- closed that most of the Republicans desired to defer discussion Senator Austin said he thought it wiser to wait until January when the “country can get a clearer view of what is involved.” — e WOULD SCRAP - U.S.- JAPAN 1911 TREATY Vandenberg—S_ays Amity Agreement Should Be Washed Out WASHINGTON, July 18—Sena- tor Arthur H. Vandenberg today of- fered the Senate a resolution that, would require Japan be given a specified six months notice of the abrogation of the 1911 treaty of am- ity between that country and this. Vandenberg explained that the resolution called for consideration that no conditions of the agreement have arisen since the treaty was wrtten, and said further that it is not a proposal to “use the axe on our diplomatic relations with Ja- pan.” Wofifi? Gives | RED LETTER DAY_When | | | these Russian misses were given top honors at a beauty contest in Paris, it was a “Red”- letter day for the Russian Nurses Aid society, where the election was held. “Miss Russia” was Irene Borodonlina, 19. Her maids of honor were Marguerite Kosloff (left), 17, and Kalia Pavalova (right), 19. Compare them with American beauties. SOUTH'S TEXTILE WORKERS WHO WANT RAISES, BACKED ‘Leaps to Her Death P L L. N. Phonephoto Eileen O’Connor | Eileen 0’Connor,19, of Clifton,N.J., | tore herself from the arms of the Her Testimony, Bridges' (as | man she loved when he rejected her | marriage proposal and leaped to her death from the ninth floor of a New York hotel. Alexander Bukocsik said he rejected her plea because he has no prospects of a job. The girl, « cabaret entertainer, is shown in her fan dance costume. Backs Up Her Husband in' Stating Purposes of Communist Party | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, July 18.— BASEBALL T0DAY The following are scores of games The wife of ex-Communist John played this afternoon in the two Leech, backed up by her husband’s major leagues: testimony regarding methods of the | Communist party and its supposed | intention to overthrow the Govern- ment of the United-States by force. | The woman, Mrs. Mary Leech,| appeared as a Government witness at the deportation hearings of | West Coast labor leader Harry Brid- | ges to his native country on the| grounds that he is a Communist and | that the Communists are trying mi overthrow the government by force. | The witness repeated Leech's ms-) timony that he was forced to make a statement under duress that Brid- ges was not a Communist. National League Cincinnati 12; Boston 3. Chicago 4; Brooklyn 2. St. Louis 5; New York 3. Amerif League Boston 13; Chicago 10. New York 9; St. Louis 0. - e — THEY'RE MARRIED SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 19.— [Just one year after his New York- | Ireland flight brought him fame, Leech was released from examina- Douslas Corrigan was married yes- tion after being questioned extens- ively regarding his two statements. He insisted that he was telling the terday to Elizabeth Marvin, San An- | The Somethin; : 7| tonio teacher and his childhood x i NAF R wage-hour sweetheart. The wedding took place | truth when he swore that Bridges 8t the First Baptist Church. was a high member of the Com-' munist party, An aerial honeymoon is planned | by the newlyweds, | BY MILL OWNERS IN NORTH By PRE ON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 8. — It may surprise people to learn that New England textile mill owners are working all the Government avenues they know to have the pay of southern mill workers increased. Correspondingly, southern textile mill operators would be glad to have New England textile wages increased substantially. It all settles back to competition between these two sections for su- premacy in textile manufacture. What hurts one seems to help the other, and that is why each section is so eager to have wages costly in the territory of the other. Here is a cat’s eye view of the situation. The wage-hour act al- | ready has pushed minimum wages | up in all sections to the 25 cents an | hour minimum. New England fa- vored that, for wages in the textile industry there had been generaily above that for a long time. Because of those high wages, much of the | milling industry has shifted down South where the labor supply was plentiful and where 25 cents an hour or less was a frequent textile | wag. PULLS MILLS SOUTH For 20 years or more the South has been draining away the New | England textile mills, a iogical enough development since it brings | manufacture closer to the cotton fields. However, you can't blame | New England for wanting to keup' an industry that has been the! strength and life of that section for a century or more. | Within 20 years 230 mills have | closed down in Massachusetts and Rhode Island alone. Some of them just closed and that was an end of it. Owners of others carted the machinery down South or liqui- dated it and took the money down.| Altogether it took 80,000 jobs | out of those two states alone. The | jobs went South but the New Eng- land workers who held them didn't. | The net result was thousands of | millers on relief. Fall River, Massachusetts, lost| 22,000 jobs that way and New Bed- ford a like number, while from the | | Pawtucket - Blackstone Valley -in| | Rhode Island more thousands of | jobs were lost. | It is all very natural from an| economic standpoint. Other factors being approximately equal, industry | will tend to move into area where labor costs are low. Btockholders who could not make any money on| | their New England mills either | closed them or carted them south | where money could be made. | A good number of mills re- mained in New England where skilled labor could make fine cloth | better than the untrained labor of the South. It was the coarse cloth | mills that moved. But as experi- ence increased in the South, more |and more mills naturally would go | | there unless something happened. | legislation. | The act meant a wage boost to (Continued on Page Three) INISKIN OIL } DRILL SHOWS { '600D SAND" BURGUNDER CONVICTED OF MURDER Oi Stratas Passed Through Jury Assesses Death Pen- This Year Oil showings at Chinitna Bay, where the Iniskin Oil Company is drilling, “look more promising than ever,” according to Russell Haven- strite, President of the company, who passed through Juneau for the Westward on the Aleutian today. Yesterday, according to wires re- ceived by Havenstrite from the drill- ing scene, the drill hole is now down 8260 feet in “very good oil sand.” Havenstrite went south two weeks | ago to bring his wife north with him to Iniskin and said that he believes indications are for a “strike” this summer. “We have been going through al- | ternate beds of oil sand and shale | since we passed 17,950 feet,” Haven- strite said. “The beds of oil sand, the first’actual oil sands we've en- counteerd, are from five to twenty feet thick. We hope to encounter oil sand several hundred feet thick before long. That is the way the geological formation appears and our past experience gives us every hope that real oil isn't far off.” Havenstrite added also, that “If we hit enough of these beds of oil sand, we'll have a field, anyway, but the formation now is so typical of large oil fields that I believe we'll hit something big this summer.” ATTY. GENERAL'S ASSISTANT HERE FOR CONFERENCE Linton Collins of Washing- : fon Spending Several Days in Juneau Linton M. Collins, Special As- sistant to Attorney General Frank Murphy, arrived today from Wash- ington to confer with U. S. Attor- ney William A. Holzheimer, District Judge George F. Alexander and U. S. Marshal William T. Mahoney on office matters. He will be here until Friday, when he will return on the Mount McKinley. Accompanying Collins here are his wife and her sister, Miss Emma Hardman of Georgia. They are registered at the Baranof. INDICTMENTS RETURNED . 0. Former Henchman of King- fish Huey Long Re- j -Big Basin Expected i ; . alty in Lethal Gas Chamber PHOENIX, Arizona, July 18 Death in the lethal gas chamber of the State Prison is the penalty asbessed on Robert Burgunder, 22, college sophomore and son of a former King County, Wash., prose- cutor. The death penalty in the lethal gas chamber was returned by the jury in convicting Burgunder for the killing of Jack Peterson, Phoe- nix automobile salesman. Burgunder heard the verdict with- | out emotion, maintaining stony in- difference which characterized his | demeanor throughout every phase of the trial. The lad’s mother, Mirs. Ruth Burgunder, of Alhambra, Cal., ap- peared deeply shocked at the death verdict. Judge Laprade said official sen- | tence will be passed July 24. | C. T. McKinney, associated with the defense counsel, said a motion for a new trial and arrest of judg- ment will be filed - 8-Alarm Fire In Pitisburgh ..... 1 PITTSBURGH, Pa, July' 18—-A' spectatcular eight-alarm fire swept through the Pittsburgh joint stock- yards on the mile-long Northside ' Island, causing damage estimated at several hundred thousand dol- lars. LABOR TROUBLE DURING FALL IS PREDICTION NOW Marine Contracts to Expire -Fight fo Be Made | for Changes PALO ALTO, Cal, July 18—The head of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association, E. P. Foise,| predicts that there will be serious labor trouble on the coast docks this fall. | Foise addressed a session of Stan- ford University's annual business conference. ’ | He declared “There is no way of guessing the extent of possible dif- ficulties this fall when contracts ex- | pire and come up for renewal. | “We are going to have trouble.” | Foise said that the Maritime un- ions have indicated they will de- mand new contracts from the em-| Here's “Wrong Way” Doug Corrigan, the Atlantic flier, and the ‘vight” girl, Elizabeth Marvin, San Antonio, Te school teacher, whom Doug has just wedded on the first anniversary of his flight to Dublin Ireland. The two are pictured hefore Doug’s plane in San Antonio. THOROUGH STUDY ALASKA FISHERIES NOW ORDERED; WILL INVESTIGATE TRAPS PickefLines At Kefchikan AreRemoved WASHINGTON, July 18. — The House has authorized the Merchant Marine Committee to thoroughly study Alaska fisheries. Alaska Delegate A. J. Dimond's resolution authorizes the committee sessions anywhere in the United ates and Alaska to start after ad- journment of Congr marily with salmon traps, advisabil- ity of changing the salmon season, —_— | effect of herring fishing as now « | conducted, on the salmon industry, Settlement Reached This na “ottshore sining by foreian . nations, of both crabs and salmon.” MOrnlng A"er A” | The committee is also authorized Nigh' Session to make any inquiry it “may con- | sider *important and pertinent to ,,,,,, ! the merchant marine and fisheries KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 18— of the United States.” A settlement was reached between eee —— | the cannery operators and the CIO | . Cannery Workers at 8 o'clock lhisf morning following an all-night con- | The investigation will deal pri-| ported in Bad ‘ NEW ORLEANS, La., July 18—~ ployers. Said he: “We will make none un- | Former henchmen of the late King- | til they show they intend to keep fish Huey Long were indicted by a Federal grand jury yesterday on charges of using the mails to de- fraud. | The grand jury has been inves- tigating shortages in funds of the state university, shortages of WPA funds and materials and other af- fairs of the state that Hugey ruled in his lifetime as his personal king- dom. Those indicted included one of Huey's closest associates, Seymour Weish and formerly known as one of the big three of Louisiana's poli- ticians after Huey was shot to death. [ ls-rocK QUOTATIONS - RO NEW YORK, July 18. — CI quotation of Alaska Juneau | stock today is 7%, American Can| 98, American Power and Light 4%, | naconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel| 61%, Commonwealth and Southern| 1%, Curtiss Wright 5% General Motors 47%, International Harves-| ter 58%, Kennecott 36%, New York | Central 15%, Northern Pacific 9%, United States Steel 51'2, Pound| $4.68%. | — | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 143.76, rails 2953, utilities 2557, - losing mine their agreements.” Foise said that if the Maritime unions call another waterfront strike as they did in 1924 and 1937 and shut down operations, it will last| a long time. He said that if the shipping interests have decided that | if they must take losses they will take them all at once. P | Gas S]alions in Miami Cost More Than Churches MIAMI, Fla., July 18.—The aver-| age gasoline station constructed this | year cost nearly twice as much as| the average church. Buflding permits were issued for three filling stations and five churches in the first five months of this year. The total for filling tations was $14,000, or $4,666 each. ‘or churches the total was $12451, r $2,490 each. Filling stations also averaged higher than . private one-family dwellings, although Miami's current building boom is concerned prin- cipally with the latter. | D Heights of 1,095 mountains on the moon have been measured.’ ference between the negotiating committees and as a result the! ' picket lines have been removed on | F the Ketchikan salmon packing | o ee IS plants. | The agreement provides the CIO| —_— with wage rates and classifications, PRATT, Kas, July 18. — Guy of workers identical with those in| Josserand, state game director, has the AFL agreement. Each union is | assigned experts to work out a bal- to bargain for their own members anced diet for the fish in Kansas and neither will have a closed streams and lakes. shop. | “Nature unaided will ni It is said the CIO will press the food n Kansas walers as fast supply as National Labor Relations Board|fish will multiply when aided by for an election to determine the scientific propagation at hatcher- | bargaining rights for local workers, 1€s” says Josserand. “We'll have Meanwhile no person is required ' to figure out a diet that will make to join either umion as a condi- |them grow faster. { tion of receiving cannery employ-| Experiments have disclosed the ment. amount of food a fish consumes RS o 7 LS AL N has a very definite relationship to ‘ll: rate of growth CRAFT LEOTA T0 e TAKE OUT PARTY “Presidénl Asks FOR TROUT TRIP Sum for A party of eight suneau trout! Alaskan A"ways fishing enthusiasts were today plan- | . 4 WASHINGTON, July 18 — ning a several days' trip aboard the boat Leota, Capt. Al Bixby. President Roosevelt has asked The group plan to leave this eve- Congress (o appropriate $300,000 ning, take in the trout fishing at to enable the Civil Aeronautics Hamilton Bay and other spots in Authority to speed work on its the vicinity, returning sometime gransatlantic radio, Alaskan air- Sunday. ways and Pacific communication Those who were to go on the! systems. jaunt, although not definitely de-' cided, were Mayor Harry Lucas,| Fred Jager, Vern Soley, Jim O'- D CURTIS HERE T. R. Curtis is registered at the Neil, Bill Evans, Dan Rulswn.’!‘om} Gastineau Hotel, planning to con- McCaul and Ed Jones. NEW ACTION EXPECTED AT DANZIGNOW General Meefing Is Called for Purpose of Deferm- ining Next Steps SPECIAL SESSION OF JAPAN CABINET HELD ' Soviet Air R_;rd—S on Border Now Cause of Tense Situation (By Associated Press) A palr of chronic trouble spots | on opposite sides of the world causa | new concern today. | Danzig is watched closely as lead~ | ers of the Nazified Danzig Govern~ ment met to discuss the next steps to bring about a reunion with Gers many. The meeting was called just a few | hours after Nazi Leader Albert For~ ! ster returned from long talks with Hitler in Berlin, | A government spokesman said | German officials belleve the Danzig question is “steering in the direction {of a peaceful solution,” and then | added: “We are very optimistic,” but he failed to deny the solution could !mean only the incorporation of Danzig in Hitler's State program. That Other Spot . In Tokyo, five key Cabinet min- 'Lsters met in an emergency session | to study the full report of the recent | Soviet .alr raids on strategic rail centers in Japanese protected Man- | choukuo. The Japanese Government is al- | ready taking a grave view of the | situation. The Manchoukuan Gov- ernment asks that a protest be made direct to Moscow over the raids. Meanwhile land fighting continues | along the disputed border between | Outer Mongolia, under Russia’s pro- | tection, and Manchooukuo, under Japanese protection. Trouble has also flared anew in the vicinity of Lake Bor. Britain’s Preparedness | Great Britain's preparedness pro- gram is moving ahead as Inspector General of Overseas Forces, Major | General Sir Edmund Ironsides, be- gan in Warsaw the task of coordi- nating the Polish and British mili- | tary strength, —_—————— WILLRUSH - ALASKA AIR BASE WORK | Construction Also Under- way for Station on Pacific Isles WASHINGTON, July 18. — Ad- |miral Leahy, head of a group of | Naval officers, has reported to Pres- ident Roosevelt that one-third of the $65,000,000 for air bases in the Pacific, including Kodiak and Sitka, in Alaska, will be expended this year. Admiral Leahy said work is now progressing as rapidly as possible In an economical manner. e TWO YOUTHS 60 10 PRISON FOR KIDNAP-SHOOTING DENVER, Col, July 18.—Cletus and Kenneth Mousman, of Cincin- nati, have been given long prison terms for the kidnap-shooting of a Denver mining man. The victim, E. H. Geary, was shot and thrown out of his car last April near Denver, The two brothers were captured near Greely, Colorado, several days later. The 22-year-oid Cletus Mous- man was sentenced to a 50 to 60 year prson term. His 19-year-old brother w as sentenced to from 9% tact his trade here for a few days.to ten years v