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

d . THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8167. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1939. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN THREATENS TO MAKE REPRISALS ATTACKON | GARNER IS BOOMERANG (0 Chieffain Lewis Raises? Havoc with Wage and Hour Act Changes WASHINGTON, July 28. — The/| denunciation yesterday of Vice- President John N. Garner, made by John L. Lewis, CI.O. Chieftain, | has stirred up such a Cnngressionall tempest that some legislators said | it certainly improves the chances | for revision of the Wage and Hour | Act at this ion. Lewis, testifying before the House Labor Committee in opposition to| proposed changes in the Wage and | Hour Act, climaxed his statements by calling Garner a “labor baiting, poker playing, whiskey drinking old man” and said he certainly would oppose him “when he seeks the Presidency in 1940,” Ignoring the CJI.O. leader's op-| position to any alterations in the Wage and Hour Act, the committee | agreed after a tempestuous session, to bring the so-called non-contro- versial amendments to the House floor on Monday. At today’s newsmens’ conference, | President Roosevelt had no com- ment to make on the statements| of Lewis except to remark that the same gentleman said some things| about him (Roosevelt) a little while | ago. The President said he thought | there had been no comment, no elaboration on this, but his listeners | recalled during the 1937 sitdown | strikes that Lewis spoke harshly of the Administration’s attitude. DOCTOR MAYO PASSES AWAY IN ROCHESTER Last of Famous Trio of Medical World Dies of . Ailment He Treated ROCHESTER, Minn., July 28— White haired Dr. William J. Mayo, son of a country doctor who trained him to become one of medical his- | tory's greatest surgeons, died today from an ailment upon treatment of which he gained much of his fame. He was 78 years of age on June 29. Dr. Mayo was stricken with a subactute perforating gastric ulcer. He was operated upon last May at the famed Mayo Clinic, founded | by his father, his late brother, Dr.| Charles Mayo, and himself, more than half a century ago. His death removed within a short space of a few months the last of | the famous tric of the medical| world. Sister Mary Joseph, who stood | across the operating table from him for a quarter of a century, died March 21. His brother died in Chi- cago May 27. Burgunder Is Senfenced fo Die October 6 College Sofio—more fo Pay Penalty for Murder of | Auto Salesman PHOENIX, Ariz, July 28.—Robert Burgunder, Jr., 22, college sopho- FIERY—Hollywood judges saw red, picking Susan Hay- ward, a movie actress from Brooklyn, as U.S. redhead queen. SENATE SLASHES BIG MEASURE IN AFTERNOON MOVE One of lea?ng Bills of Administration Is Knocked Qut WASHINGTON, July 28—In sudden reversal this afternoon, the | Senate voted to slash the half billion dollars for highway im- provements and the Administra- tion’s two billion four hundred and ninety million dollar lending pro- gram. The Senate's vote was takenonly a few minutes after Representa- tive J. A. Gavagan in the House announced that he would ask for a caucus of the House Democrats tonight to express “loyalty and devotion” to the President. The Senate’s vote against re- taining the Highway Fund was 42 to 38. The vote was a blow to the Administration and was forced by a coalition of Democrats and Re- FIRE, EXPLOSION DESTROYS PART, PORT OF ALGIE Six Dock Workers Killed and Ten Others Are Burned Seriously ALGIERS, July 28.—Part of the Port of Algiers was destroyed by a fire and explosion today in which six dock workers were killed and ten others were burned, several seriously who are not expected to live. The damage is estimated at about $460,000, Kefchikan's Water Supply Profected WASHINGTON, July 28. — The bill intended to provide protection for the water supply of Ketchikan has been approved by President Roosevelt. 2 S L * L Mo B SRl 4 BRSPS | sTock QUOTATIONS i +- NEW YORK, July 28. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7%, American Can more, was today sentenced to digrgg American Power and Light 5%, October 6 in the lethal gas chamber, for the murder of Jack Peterson, Phoenix auto salesman, on a desert near here, on April 29, Burgunder is the son of a former King County, Wash. prosecutor. He was convicted July 18 and will be delivered to the death house at the State Prison in Florence immediate- ly. ——————— Rudolph Reimer is commission- er of immigration at Ellis Island. Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Commonwealth and Southern |1%, General Motors 48%, Inter- | national Harvester 54%, Kennecott 1867%, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 10%, United | States Steel 53%, Pound $4.68. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones average industrials 144.11, rails 29.57, utilities 26.25. T HATCH BILL | FAVOREDBY -~ ROOSEVELT President WStudy New | Measure, However, Before Signing WASHINGTON, July 28.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today declared he is absolutely in favor of the ob- jectives of the Hatch bill which will prohibit “pernicious” political acti- vities. The President made this remark at today’s conference with newsmen but added that there is a real prob- lem involved in the measure, which is now at the White House, await ing Presidential action. The President said the problem is what can people legitimately do under the very broad language of the measure, citing for instance, *that the bill might be interpreted to forbid a person to attend a poli- tical rally or voluntarily contribute | to campaign expenses of a friend. The President said he will take with him on his week-end fishing trip a lot of documentary evidence on the Hatch bill. | i Nicholson ~ Is Showing His Stuff ' Southern S]Eger Out to ' Prove He's Worth- 1 Cubs’ $35,000 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, July 28. —He may be just a guy named Bill when he pulls a Chicago Cub uni- form over his solid frame. He may | be one of the many ambitious young baseball players who get their op- | portunity of a lifetime and come up short. But Outfielder William Nichol- son entertains a modgst belief he’ll make the grade with the Cubs, who shelled out $35,000 for him. Nicholson joined ‘the Chattanoo- ga Lookouts this year as just a fair prospect but he displayed enough prowess to stick with the club. Then his rattling base knocks began to pay dividends to President Joe En- gel. | Big Bill thanks Hazen (Kiki) Cuy- 'ler, the Lookout skipper and old | big league star, for his improve- ment. “He made me widen my stance,” lexplains the 24-year-old slugger. 1“I had been standing 'way back, | feet close together, and lunging at | the ball. That made me easy for a change of pace. Cuyler taught me to get set for pitchers and I don't | get fooled much now.” Nicholson, a 204 -pound native Marylander who played baseball and football in high school and at | Washington College, failed to hit | 300 at Williamsport last year. With Chattanooga this season he has kept right around the .350 mark in a faster league. So the Cubs picked him off in mid-season and Bill's out to prove his worth. “He will, all right” Cuyler claims. “Bill will make the Cubs a good man. I hope we can get some- one nearly as good to fill his place in our outfield.” 'Spanish Refugees Reachflg Mexico VERA CRUZ, Mexico. — Two thousand and one hundred Span- ish refugees have arrived in Vera Cruz. They will remain in this Mexi- can port until tomorrow when they will be sent to various parts of the Latin American countrigs. The latest contingent of Span- ish refugees brought the number of refugees who have been assisted by Mexico to about 24,000. - eee DIFFERENT LINES Bruce Bower is now representing Schwabacher Hardware in Alaska, while, not to be confused with that line, N. A. McEachran is represent- lmg, as in past years, the trade of Schwabacher Bros. " i | | | | | i | 1S NOT PUBLICITY, - SAYS PREACHER ' Daughter Saves Fur Coat | from Sea But Burns | Hole in It Later Dr. Homer Flint Kellems, far- mer-evangelist-sailor-explorer from | Oklahoma, returning to the States with the crew of his shipwrecked | would-have-been Arctic cruiser | Pandora, stepped off the steamer | Baranof in Juneau this forenoon land smilingly, but at great length, | ~denied the wreck of the Pandora was a publicity stunt. | For 27 hours last Thursday, the Pandora had been making slow | progress in a heavy southeast blow, Kellems said, and because of the | blow, instead of going to Icy Bay,| the party made for the lee of Kay- |ak Island, off Cape St. Elias. Bumps on Rock | “At 5:30 o'clock in the morning,” Kellems related, “we dropped the lead at half tide with the tide| dropping. We had two and a half fathoms of water, but a few hours later, I felt the Pandora bump on a rock, so we lifted anchor and moved out, but we hit again. The third time, while running in the trough of the swells, we felt the stern slide over another rock and then the bow hit. We couldn't go ahead and we couldn't go astern and we lost the rudder trying to move, so we couldn't do anything but lie there and take it. “Every time a swell dropped us, we hit on the rocks, and finally, the boat was taking so much water I had to shut the engine off and we started throwing every- thing that would float ashore over- board.” Rescued by Morris Conveniently, St. Elias light sta- tion was near, and one of the crew was sent ashore to give the distress call to the Coast Guard. Thirty hours later, wet and hungry, the party was taken off the beach by the cutter Morris. Loss with the vessel's founder- ing, from which little was saved,, Kellems said, amounted to around $5,000, according to the ship- wrecked crew composed of Kel- lems, his 21-year-old daughter Viv- ienne, Cecil Brooks, another evan- gelist, whose yachting cap he was wearing on his way north was re- placed today by fisherman oilskins, engineer Ira Jones, photographer A. Y. Owens and radio operator Leo Clark. Biggest loss, Kellems said, was 10,000 names of stamp collectors to whom he was mailing cachets from every port touched along the| route, but the disappointment ol‘, the loss, he said, will be partially| ortset by the fact that photogra-| pher Owens took eight stills of the | shipwrecked party in their make- | shift sail shelter on the beach, and | also got 900 feet of film with the| | (Continued on Page Two) MASS FLIGHT INTO THE SUNSET—Some idea of the size of the navy's patrol bombers is gained from view of one of them, taken at San Diego before the recent nonsiop mass flight of 15 such planes to Pearl Harbor, the nation’s Pacific “Gibraltar.” PANDORA WRECK | AT LAST THE REPUBLICANS HAVE A WORKING MAJORITY MORE EVIDENCE GIVEN AGAINST HARRY BRIDGES Two Labor Organizers Link Cl0 Leader with Communists SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 28. —Two labor organizers have linked Harry Bridges with the work of the Communist Party and testified that they had attended meetings of Communist leaders with the west coast leader of the CIO. A former business agent of the Sailors Union of the Pacific at Ab- | erdeen, Wash., John Davis, said that | duty of pointing out those occasions | he had seen Bridges at Communist| when the party in power fails meetings at Seattle and San Fran- cisco. He said that at one San Fran- cisco meeting he had received in- structions for party work in the Northwest. The meeting took place in Bridge’s office according to the testimony. The government seeks to deport Bridges because he is a Communist allegedly advocates overthrow of the government by force. Davis said that he joined the Communist party in 1935 and found that many other leaders in the mari- time unions were members. He said that all, including Bridges, joined | under assumed names in order to avoid embarrassment in case police searched party records. During his testimony Davis re- vealed that he had received three| medals, . including one for heroism which was voted by Congress. His heroism was displayed in rescuing survivors of a shipwreck in Alaska waters in 1932. Later he was con- victed of embezzling $1,800 dollars from his union. The jury recom- mended leniency. Davis said that the Communist Party established units at the Sand Point Air base and at the Boeing Aircraft plant in Seattle. Others were established at the Bremerton | Navy Yard and at the various power dams around the Northwest. He said that the Communists were to take over all those projects in case of war or revolution, Veteran organizer of the Shingle Workers Union, Gordon Castor, fol- lowed Davis as a witness. He con- firmed the story of a Communist meeting attended by Bridges at Se- attle. Government attorneys announced that their case will extend into next week, ‘The defense expects to take about six weeks to present their case. ———— Envoys between enemy tribes in Australia are safeguarded by spe- cial decorations painted on their skin, | By JOS. W. MARTIN, JR, Republican Leader, House of Representatives (Pinch-hitting for Preston Grover, on vacation.) | WASHINGTON, July 28-Under the American system of represen- tative government, political parties | are the instru- 2 : ments through which the peo- , ple undertake to make their gov- ernment respon- sive to their needs and de- sires. On the party in power falls the responsibili- ty for governing the country MR. MARTIN wisely and well, On the minority party falls the to | achieve those objectives, and of proposing constructive alternatives |of action. | Such is the function of our two- | party system. The purpose of the | two-party system in America is {to make government the servant of all the people and thiis promote |the general welfare of the entire |and because the Communist party |country, including all groups and |all classes. When the two-party sys |tem functions properly—as it has | during the last six months in Wash- ington—the best interests of the country are served. The Republicans in the present session of Congress have made a distinct contribution tc wise gov- ernment and to the welfare of the country. They have been able to | do so because at last year's election their numbegs were sufficiently in- | creased, especially in the House of Representatives, to make them an | effective minority party and thus able to perform their normal func- tion of acting as a check on hasty, ill-considered or unwise legislative action. PRESIDENTIAL POWER For six years prior to the present Congress, the majority party over- whelmingly out-numbered the min- ority. In many instances the party in power rode roughshod over the minority, ignoring their suggestions and their criticisms. The result was the enactment of hodge-podge leg- |islation, much of it unwise, more of it defective and some of it un- constitutional. The result also was the delega- tion of authority to the Chief Exec- utive on such a scale that many persons have become gravely con- cerned over the consequences of pldcing so much power in one man’s hands. Even the Chief Ex- ecutive himself has conceded that his party in this period built up new instruments of public power which in the hands of the wrong |men “would provide shackles for | the liberties of the people.” (Col;l;;)}a:d—;n‘ Page Seven) ik | | | R i FISH BUYING AT " SITKA STALLED; UNION TROUBLES Alaska Trollers Associa-| fion in Jurisdiction- | al Dispute " KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 28— Fish buyers at Sitka, handling most | of the troll caught salmon business this season, according to advices received here, are sitting back await- ing developments as the business is tied up, the result of a reported at- tempt of the Alaska Trollers As- sociation tq force the independent | fishermen and members of the CIO United Trollers of the Pacific into the AFL Union. The fish buyers have been inac- tive since Wednesday when the ATA asked them to stop buying| from others. The ATA, retaliating on the independent fishermen,| placed boats in front of all hoists, | preventing unloading. | According to a radiogram received here from a buyer by H. C. Nunan, New England Fish Company offici- al, the buyers in Sitka are “letting the unions fight out the jurisdic- tional dispute among themselves.” Other firms affected include the Alaska Fish Products and Vita Food Products.’s Thunder Rain Aiding Crops Some Sedions Pre(ipitatiofil Other Re- | gions Too Meager fo Break Dry Spell (By Associated Press) | Scattered thunder storms with | rain revived crops in certain parts of the east and midwest but rain | failed to fall in many of the drought areas. Showers are reported in Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey but the precipitation is too meagre in many sections to break the prolonged dry spell which has already cost untold millions of dollars in burned crops and forest fires. Corn in many sections is report- ed standing the heat well. More rain will be needed however to keep it from falling. PAIR PLEAD GUILTY T0 ADULTERY CHARGE —_— 13 Pleading guilty to charges of adultery, Beatrice Harris and Joe Carillez were sentenced today by U. 8. Commissioner M. E. Monagle lw three months in jall each, ABROGATION NINE-POWER TREATY NOW iS PROPOSAL 'Denunciation Is Result of Action of United States— Nippon Handling U.S. Move with Gloves (By Associated Press) The Japanese Government is sug- gesting that the Nine Power Treaty protecting foreign rights in China be abrogated at once and “without further ado." This proposed abrogation results from the denuficiation by the Unit- ed States of the United-States Ja- pan 1911 commerce and navigation treaty. The Chinese officials are rejoic- ing in the abrogation of the 1911 treaty. They believe that with an embargo, Japan will be unable to carry on the war in China. The treaty lapses on January 26, according to Secretary of State Cordell Hull's notification of de- nunciation made to Japan. New Element Projected The abrogation injected an im- portant new element in the Far Eastern situation and brought re- percussions in Europe where it is hinted that Great Britain is con- sidering following the lead taken by the United States in abrogation of the 1911 trade treaty. There is no use denying that Ja- pan is worried and uneasy over the denunciation of the 1011 treaty and besides advancing abrogation of the Nine Power pact is also con= sidering economic re s on America, Are Cautious Japanese newspapers are cautious in mentioning the denunciation by the United States and it is evident that a warning has been given out to do nothing to arouse greater en- mity of the United States. Jap- anese nationals in all parts of the world are cautioned to be careful and it is also understood that or- ders have been issued by the Jap- anese military in China to protect both Americans and American prop- erty if sudden emergenceis arise. Only one Japanese newspaper has expressed resentment at the action of the United States and this is guarded. The newspaper Kukomin, organ of the Army Ultra-National- ists says “opinion is rising in favor of abrogation of the Nine Power Treaty without further ado.” Official Statement The official statement of the For~ eign Office, regarding the denun- (Continued on page Six) FOREIGN VIEWS ON ABROGATION U.S.-JAPAN PACT French Hail Denunciation as Warning - Nazi Makes Prediction PARIS, July 28.—The Frerich press hailed the denunciation of the Jap- |anese trade treaty as a warning to Japah against further violations of the rights of the third powers in China. The “Paris Soir,” the paper with the largest circulation in Prance, said that the treaty abrogation was an important step toward clarifica- tion of the situation in the Far East. The publication said that Japan had demonstrated by recent events that she planned no regard for the interests of other nations in the Far East. In London, political circles spee- ulated considerably about the Unit- ed States denunciation of the com- mercial pact. A studious effort was made to avold official comment at this time, however. In Berlin the prediction was made that Japan would overcome all dif- ficulties during her campaign in China in the same manner that Italy overcame the sanctions program during her conflict with Ethopia. Nazi newspapers referred to the ac- tion of the State Department in Washington as a political measure, designed to show that the United States was not involved in what was md, “British defeat in the Far