The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV.. NO. 8159. CIO Labor Chief Is Indicted DAMAGING EVIDENCE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1939. FDR ABANDONS BATTLE OVER BIG ISSUE MecNutt Tukes Owr Now Job as Sec unl y Head IS GIVEN Atforney S—afiwm Testifies Bridges Said He Was Running Communists SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, July 19.— Aaron Sapiro, well-known San Francisco and Hollywood attorney, who once represented the Seamens’ Union and was counsel for Tom Mooney, testified today in the Harry Bridges' deportation hearing, that in 1936 Bridges “told me he was | | running the Communist party and | the Communist party was running the Maritime Unions of the Pacific Coast.” Browder Knew Bridges Sapiro also testified that Earl Browder, leader of the Communist party in the Untied States, told him in 1936: “I know Bridges and all about him. He is one of the hard- est members we have to handle in the party.” Sapiro was called to the stand by the government. He said he talked with Bridges in June, 1936, when In the preesnce of department heads, who will report to him, Paul V. McNutt (seated at table), former High Commissioner to the Philippines, took over the newly created $12,000-a-year job of Federal Security Administrator in the office of Surgeon General Thomas Parran in Washington, D. C. Parren, head of Public Health Service; John W. Studebaker, Commit Social Security Board; Arthur Altmey Pan American Sanitary Bureau; Aubrey Williams, National Youth Administration; Mrs. McNutt’s assistant, and J. J. McEntee, Civilian Conservation Corps of Social Security Director. Board; Wayne Coy, Left to right: Dr. ioner of Education; George E. Bigge, , Social Security Board Chairman; Director Hugh S. Cummings of Ellen Woodward, Harlan Guardsmen in Action; 1 Dead, 6 Hurt Sapiro was legal representative of | the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific. “I laughed at him when he said the Communist party was not run- ning the Sailors’ Union of the Pa- cific and he replied: ‘That is what | you think.’” Did Break Away The union broke from the Inter- national Seamens’ Union in 1936 but has since reaffiliated with the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor. Sapiro testified that Bridges lried‘ to persuade him not to urge reaf- filiation. Bridges Brags Sapiro said that he met Bridges | in a San Prancisco hotel in May or June, 1636, and Bridges scoffed at me “for my lack of knowledge of the rank and file movement on the Pa- cific Coast. “You are just like Earl Browder. He can’t understand the rank and file movement on the coast. When I met him at the Fleishhacker pool on the beach I told him I had to take the rank and file workers even away from Mike Casey of the San Francisco Teamster’s Union,” Sapiro said Bridges told him, Yesterday, a former member of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Un- ion, John Leopold, testified he was expelled from the labor group be- cause he fought Communism. Leopold was the fourth govern- ment witness in deportation hear- rconnnued on Page Five) ————— NOTED ECONOMIST STRICKEN; DEATH COMES SUDDENLY Edwin R. A. Seligman, Fis- cal Expert, Leading Authority, Passes LAKE PLACID, N. Y, July 19. —Edwin R. A. Seligman, 78, noted economist and fiscal expert, died yesterday at his summer home here. Death was caused by a sudden heart attack. He was one of the world’s foremost authorities on in- ternational finance. Seligman approved the gold policy of President Roosevelt's first year in office as the strongest pos- sible weapon against inflation. An Accomplished Pianist Though it was said of him that he had written more books and be- longed to more learned societics than any other economist Dr. Se- ligman was known also as an ex-| cellent pianist, an ardent bicyclist and a man who did not believe in working after sunset. He wore a square beard and nose glasses. He was born in’New York Apru{ 25, 1861. His father, Joseph, was founder of the banking firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. His grand- father, David, had come to the United States from Bavaria. In 1887 Dr. Seligman married Caroline Beer of New York, They had a son and two daughters, National Guardsmen in the labor-strife torn mining town of Harlan, Ky., went into action in no uncer- tain fashion when a union man attempted to wrest a rifle from a trooper as some 250 miners were being started. ALWAYS GE By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 19.—Stripped down to the running gears, the contest between President Roose- velt and Congress over continuing the emergency powers is the old bat- tle that presidents always lose in their second terms. Probably each phase of the con- test is more dramatic now than ever before. There is a reason for that. The President’s public appeal |and his personal influence in Wash- ington have been tremendous. For | that reason, each battle that Con- gress wins seems incredible. It is almost as if the irresistible force were meeting the immovable body —and making it move. When the President was inaugu- rated he told the country that if felt it necessary he would ask C gress for “the broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency.” He soon felt it nec- essary and was given broad execu- | tive powers. | Some of the powers have been | taken away. Some he still has. that some of them never will be| |lost to the President. THE GREATEST ATTACK Undoubtedly the most formidable | Anybody can find takers for a bet | marched to the jail. One person was killed and six wounded in the shooting that resulted. were rushed to the town to help maintain order. Later tanks The guardsmen are shown just as the disturbance SECOND TERM PRESIDENTS TITINTHE NECK | mass attack against the President’s ‘emergency powers was in the clos- |ing days of June when one or an- other of the two branches of Con- | gress voted to: 1.—Withdraw ito devalue the tiollar. 2. —Dissolve the currency stabiliza'ion fund. 3—Keep the restraints upon him imposed in the Neutrality act. Further, the Relief bill, itself al- though largely continuing the President’s “lump sum” control of the spending, imposed special re- straints on the method of spending which the Chief Executive had sought to avgid. The Presiuent the Relief bill because he had to] have the money or dump a heap of workers off relief. But on the warned of a continuing battle. Even in his first term the su- | (preme Court and Congress began | The Court took the lead ‘in that by | knocking out the far-reaching NRA | wnuthonues which gave the admin- (Connnued on Page Seven) his power further! !2,000.000,000 | | INVESTIGATE WPA STRIKE, MINNEAPOLIS Special Probe of Grand Jury Is Ordered by Atty. General | | ney General Frank Murphy has ordered a Federal Grand Jury to investigate the Minneapolis WPA | strike situation. One Justice Department official nienderad on‘wu the jury will look into the|4s, charges that non-strikers were in- | timidated. The investigation was ordered| e R SR ERICKSON IS BACK FROM SEATTLE EBBA trimming the President’s spowers. | | Miss Ebba Erickson, housekeeper at the Governor’s House, returned | to Juneau on the Taku this morn- }mg after a trip to Seattle. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Attor- * P ———— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Chinese Viclors, 2 Fronts Japanese Repulsed in Stalemated Sectors— Suffer Losses SHANGHAI, July 19. — Chinese | military reports from the deep in- terior tell of major successes against | the Japanese forces in the long stalemated fronts {n the Hupeh and Shansi Provinces, the present main theatres of combat. Advices state a big scale battle is in progress in southeastern Shan- si Province. The Chinese reporf. their foes | have lost 7,000 men there in lho last fortnight. On the other front, about 100 miles west of Hankow, the Chinese | are reported to be pushing the in- paders back from the Han River which they have been trying to October 25, the fall of Hankow. e e-—— OUTLAW CONVICT EASILY CAPTURED | BY RURAL SHERIF | Escaped Pnsoner Wante for Many Crimes, Is Taken in Ozark OZARK, Ark, July 19.—A rural sheriff, who trapped Jack Russell, | 39, ‘today weighed claims with vari- | ous state and Federal authorities for the Oklahoma convict who is accused of kidnapings, robberies and car thefts in the seven days he has been a fugitive. Sheriff Champ Crawford, of Franklin County, captured Russell early today without a struggle in a fishing camp north of Ozark. Oklahoma authorities have asked for the return of Russell to the McAllister prison but several war- rants for him are out, one from Chicago, charging him with kid- naping and killing William 8. Ham- ilton last Friday near Ringwood, m C(OMMONWEALTH, SOUTHERN CORP. IS T0 SELL oUT NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 19.— The Commonwealth and Southern Corporation prepared today toturn its 88% million dollar utility sys- tem over to the T.V.A. Company. President Wendgll Wilkie said that the transfer to the Tennessee Val- ley Authority and Tennessee muni- cipalities would be effective August 15. He said the conferences had removed the last stumbling block to the sale which represents the responsibility for almost half a million dollars in state taxes. The TVA, Nashville and Chat- tanooga participated in the enter- prise. Congress at first turned thumb.s down on the purchase of the vast setup. — e — — 4 i NEW YORK, July 19. — Closing (quof.a'.ion of Alaska Juneau mine k today is 7', American Can American Power and Light Apaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, 1 General Motors 47%, International l STOCK QUOTATIONS 97‘» monetary and neutrality POWers he qrier an investigation by the FBI.|Harvester 57%, Kennecott 36, New York Central 15%, Northern Pa- cific 9%, United States Steel 504, | Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 142.64; rails 20.14, utilities 25.22, cross since a few weeks after last/ DISAPPOINTS - BRITISHERS RooseveIIsDeclsmnto | Abandon Neufrality Battle Is ‘Defeat’ FASCIST NEWSPAPERS | COMMENT ON ISSU | st | Berlin Declares FDR Has | Suffered "New Politi- ' cal Failure’ (By Assoclnted Press) President Roosevelt's decision to | abandon his fight on the Neutrality | law revision at the present session lnf Congress has caused disappoint- ment in London and newspapers | ‘L\bel the defeat as a win for the| | Rome-Berlin axis. British officials professed to be a lm.le surprised at the abandonment of the fight. The British Forelgn Office spokes- man said: “We had been advised not to expect President Roosevelt to force the issue at the present time.” [ One British official said: “We| | have always taken the view that | this is none of our business but there ‘Ls no sense in professing we have | \no interest in the Neutrality legis-| |lation in the United States.” Fascist newspapers today suid the President of the United States .hlA hed to surrender “40. the. Iso- ;lamonmt.s," and see in the develop- | | ments in Washington evidence that |the “American parties are against the President.” Afternoon newspapers in Berlin ,attnck Roosevelt in the headlines. | One newspaaper draws the conclus- ion that he has suffered a ‘‘new | political failure.” e — DIMOND PRAISES - FIRE PROTECTION - PLANS IN ALASKA ' Delegate Has Been Work- ing for Years for Just Such Program By LISETTE RIGGS | ‘Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 10.—Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond today lauded the new provisions for flre‘ protection on the.public domain in | Alaska, just announced by the Gen-; eral Land Office. Delegate Dimond | has long been working for fire pro-| tection for Alaska. “Just last summer, when flying | from Anchorage to Fairbanks, at| one time I saW% 27 forest fires,” said | Dimond. The vast undertaking is about 70| percent larger than all of the Fed- eral holdings in Federal forests in | continental United States, estimates Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. The $37,500 program will be spent on fire fighting, together with an| educational crusade in cooperation | with the University of Alaska, the Alaska Railroad, the Highway Com- mission and local fire chiefs. Pla- | cards will be posted along the rail- road and highways, to make tour- | ists as well as Alaskans fire-consci- | ous, as fires in Alaska are usuxlly man-started. William J. McDonald, of An-‘ chorage, Senior Forester, General | Land Office, himself a veteran sup- | porter of fire prevention in Alaska, is in charge. He is expected in Wash- ington in September for conferences on a detailed fire-control program. For some time, outstanding advo- cates of a fire protection program | have been Gov. John W. Troy, Di- rector Ernest H. Gruening, of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, and B. P. Heintzleman, | Regloml P'oreswr for Alaska. SISTER VISITING ‘ MRS. FRANK BOYLE| Mrs. Irene Bishop wnd her daugh- ter, June Bishop, are the guests of Mrs. Frank A. Boyle. Mrs. Bishop is the wife of E. Allen Bishop, orth-| odonist of Seattle, and the sister or Mrs. Boyle | { "STOP FIGHT' Special ( Session looming} If Crisis Develops in Eur- ope, President Will Be Forced fo Act WASHINGTON, July 18 —Stephen Early, President Rm«\veln press secretary, said the have to call a special Congress to act on neutrality leg- islation should a crisis develop in Europe after adjournment of the | present Congress. Asked whether the President was going to take the neutrality issue to the country, Early replied: “I am certain of one thing, that from the time Congress adjourns until it re- convenes next January, the Presi- dent will pray as never before in all of his life that there will be no new crisis in Europe.” Indications are strong that the President, from now until the issue arrives at the start of the next session, he will take the fight on 1xepenl of the arms embargo directly to the people. Some Senators apparently accept- ed these indications as constituting |an unexpressed challenge which | they are prompt to accept. Among these Senators is Johnson, who told newsmen: “If the President goes to the country, we will go to. We will go on the slogan that this | country wants no war.” pomps o sk g - BIG ORDER—Orders for materials and supplies worth $4,000,000 annually will be han- dled by pert Mrs. Edith Gaddis, newly-named purchasing agent for N. Y. Steam corp. Born in St, Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Gaddis at- tended Sweetbriar college, BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon: National League Pittsburgh 10; New York 3. Chicago 2; Boston 3. American League Boston 1; Chicago 4 - e, PLUNGE TAKEN BY VERN HOKE While repairing the United States Signal Corps cable 5% miles out the Glacier Highway, on the flats, Vern L. Hoke, Civilian Radio Engineer, attached to the Juneau radio office, fell today from a ladder and sustained a broke left | wrist. Hoke was taken to St. Ann's Hospital where an examination is being made to ascertain whether he suffered back injuries. . ———— Boiled snakes are used as a cure for tuberculosis in Korea. _| outbreak of war, FIGHT OVER NEUTRALITY IS DROPPED President, Secrefary Hull Give Up Attempt for Law This Session AMERICAN POSITION WEAKENED, IS CLAIM AdjournmenT Now Waits on Lending Program’s Completion WASHINGTON, July 19.—Presi- dentr Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull today announced un- willing abandonment of attempts to obtain further action on neu- tralty legislation at this session after an unusual White House con~ ference last night with Democratic and Republican Senate leaders who insisted upon no change in the ‘present law. The Administration had sought to muster sufficient support to force the program out of the Foreign Relations Committee, Roosevelt and Hull, though yield- ing, did not bunge from the posi- tion of blaming the failure to enact a law which would have repealed the arms embargo and allowed any nations to buy here for cash, taking delivery on American soil, weakens the American position in a possible Roosevelt vs. Borah Conferees reported the President and Senator Willlam E. Borah of Idaho clashed repeatedly. The Presi- dent said the Senate must take the responsibility for failure. Borah said: “Of course responsibility must rest with the Senate. Where else could responsibility for not completing legislation rest. We are not operat- ing under A. Hitler.” The neutrality decision left the way open for possible adjournment in two or three weeks, depending upon how quick action will be com- pleted on the new lending pro- gram. PRESIDENT 10 BE WELCOMED BY DELEGATE Dimond Pl—a—r_l.s fo Reach Kefchikan Ahead of Roosevelt Keeping his fingers crossed for good weather, Alaska Delegate An- thony J. Dimond will be on the dock at Ketchikan to welcome President Roosevelt to Alaska, he, notified friends here by letter today. The President plans to leave Washington soon after Congress adjourns. “God grant that we have sunshine while he is in Alaska,” Dimond wrote “for T should hate to have him take away the impression of a rainy, fog- bound, stormy land.’ B. P. R. Becomes P.R. A in New Reorganization Gone forever is the title “Bu- reau of Public Roads,” the road building agency having been re- named the “Public Roads Admin- istration of the Federal Works Agency” under the July 1 reor- ganization move, Known familiarly to Juneauites as the “B.P.R.” the agency will hereafter be referred to, presum- ably as the “PR.A. HAGERTY RETURNS FROM NOME TRIP Don Hagerty, Field Representa- tive for Indian Corporations of the Office of Indian Affairs, returned yesterday by PAA plane from Fair- banks after .a month's tour of the northern villages. A 2,000 loan for the King Island native store has been approved, he reported. Hagerty visited Nome, Shishmaref, Wales, Kotzebue, Una~ lakleet and numerous other places in the Second Division.