The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _VOL. LIV., NO. 8169. S—————— e e — ] JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STRIKERS IN RIOT, MANY A British-Ja . Escaping “Pitfalls” EB|G BILL CONFERENCE BREAKDOWN NOW FEARED Tokyo Talks Regarding Blockade Seem Get- ting No Place NEW DEMANDS MADE ON BRITAIN BY JAPAN Two Powers Are Reported Ready to Send Milifary | Mission fo Moscow (By Associated Press) | Anti-British demonstrations were | staged Sunday and today outside of Great Britain's Tokyo Embassy amid growing reports of grave dif- ficulties in the British-Japanese negotiations in settling the Far' Eastern dispute between the two powers, Informed London quarters feared today that the Tokyo talks initiat- ed after Japan imposed the block- ade on June 14 at Tientsin of the British and French concessions arc headed for a breakdown. The negotiators are deadlocked according to official reports. The Japanese have made a new demand, that the British surrender about $3,388,000 deposited in the British Tientsin banks by the Chin- | ese government, | MISSIONS GO TO MOSCOW Dispatch of joint British and French military missions are to start immediately for Moscow for staff talks. This is the annoynce- ment made in the House of Com- mons this forenoon by Prime Min- ister Neville Chamberlain. Military talks will proceed “side by side” with the current three power conservations aimed at bring- ing Russia into mutual assistance pact with Great Britain and France. The British mission will include Admiral Sir Reginald Plunkett, and | Major General T. G. Haywood. | In Moscow, the Communist party | newspaper Pravda said Russia is| ready to help organize a “real peace | front.” SNAG IS HIT LONDON, July 31.—Late this af- ternoon Prime Minister Neville| Chamberlain acknowledged before the House of Commons that the definition of the term “indirect ag-| gression” is the major snag holding up conclusion of the proposed Brit- | ish-French-Russian mutual assis- | ance pact. | The Prime Minister made this disclosure during a Foreign Affairs debate and a short time after he announced military missions will be sent from Great Britain and France to Moscow immedaitely. Definition Tough One Chamberlain said: “There is no secret about the fact that the Brit- ish Government, French Govern- ment and Soviet Government com- bined are not yet abole to agree upon | a definition satisfactory to all par- ties on the terms of indirect ag- gression, although all three realize indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression. | All three Governments desire to find a satisfactory method provid-| ing against it.” B BLAZE ON SHIP: 30 MEN INJURED Damage I;—Esiimated fo Freighter Between $50,- 000 and $100,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 31. —Damage caused by fire sweeping the forward hold of the freighter West Ira, which also injured 30 men, is estimated by the McCor- mick Line officials, at between $50,000 and $100,000. The blaze started while freighter was at the pier, the RE INJURED Willo Sheridan, with a letter of in- troduction from Michigan's Gover- nor Luren D. Dickinson, arrives at Newark Airport from Detroit. She admitted she smoked and drank moderately, two of the “pitfalls” mentioned by Dickinson on his vis to Gotham. Willo represents Mich. igan’s aireraft industry at the World's Fair. POSSIBILITIES OF PEAT INTRIGUING INGOLDEN HEART Expert Reaches Fairbanks in Course of Investi- gation of Tundra FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 31— Alaska, which has ylelded the Unit- ed States millions in metals and other natural resources, has hopes for developing a new natural asset in its vast tundra areas. Peat is a new potential source of wealth in areas which hitherto were considered hopeless wastes. UP TODAY IN SENATE Lending M;s—ure, Spon- sored by Administra- fion, Is Trimmed RUNAWAY CONGRESS IS NOW IN ACTION Adjournmefifiay Take Place by End of | Week | St | WASHINGTON, July 31.—Presi- dent Roosevelt’s battered “lending | bill” bulked large on the Congress- ional horizon this morning as a| runaway Congress headed into what is expected to be the last week of | the current session Majority Leader Barkley predict- | ed that the Senate would vote today on the lending program whose advo- cates were ocnfident of dealing| further blows to the bill before the | final vote is reached. With Congress in the greatest re- volt since President Roosevelt took over the reigns of the government, it is reported that majority leaders would have a stiff fight to achieve | their remaining objectives and reach | adjournment by next Saturday. A struggle over the Senate’s ap- proved $800,000,000 huosing bill was in progress, while amendments to the Social Security Act were dead- locked in the committee. Economy Bloc Works The Senate bipartisan economy | bloc forced an additional $25,000,- 000 reduction to the lending bill| during this afternoon and accepted | by a vote of 44 to 35 the proposal | of Majority Leader Barkley to cut| from $100,000,000 to $75,000,000 the | proposed new lending authorization | for the Export and Import Bank. | Barkley offered the amendment as a compromise after Senate Taft demanded the authorization be re-| duced to $25,000,000. | [ This action brought the total of | ‘Lhe lending bill down to one billion | | six hundred and fifteen million dol- | | SHARES EASIER panese lientsin | Where Uncle Sam’s, States’ Old Age $7000 70 $/00,000 £/,000, 33500,000 ALASKA—~ £500000 70 000 #/00000 70 [ /000,000 70 $2822, 424 4/ RECEIVED |505 RECEIVED £7584 38 Chart shows at a glance how federal and state governments have p shading shows concentration of aged in the United States in ratio to popul: Pennsylvania, $2,231 0; New Mexico, § Other highs: Nevada, $2 $60.17. | | | TODAY AT CLOSE OF N. Y. MARKET Prices Are Trifle Shaded, Fractionally, from | Saturday’s Close | NEW YORK, July 31. — Stocks generally were a shade easier at the close today with prices off frac- tionally from Saturday’s close. There were no big losses and there were few issues on the upside. Western Dr. A. P. Stokes, peat authority |lars compared to the total of $2,- | Union turned in a particularly good from Washington, is here investi- | 800,000,000 when the measure was | performance. It, at one time, was gating the extent and quality of huge deposits. Residents of Ceneral Alaska are viewing with interest the possibility the investigation might result in Alaskan deposits supplanting Am- erican imports from abroad which exceed two million tons annually. The wholesale price is about $15 a ton. Chief use is for soil rehabilita- tion and fertilization. CAMPAIGN FUNDS ARE INJECTED IN LENDING MEASURE Amendment Is Approved Against Confributions by Organizations WASHINGTON, July 31. — The Senate has overwhelmingly ap- proved of an amendment to the Lending Bill which would prohibit organizations from making political | campaign contributions to the gen- | eral funds. The amendment was offered by Senator Tydings of Maryland and is considered as aimed at CIO President John L. Lewis’s $500,000 contribution to the last Democratic campaign. S CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, July 31. — The Senate has confirmed the appoint- ment of former Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre as the new High Commissioner of the Philippines, He succeeds Paul Mc- Nutt. first introduced. i ! Senate leaders hoped for final| action on the bill tonight and the | vote might make it possible for ad- | journment by the end of the week. | | The House has not yet considered | | the bill. AFL Now Plan Fight on (IO Auto Workers DETROIT, Mich., July 31—A. F. of L. organizers have received final | instructions from their generals for a campaign into the CIO United ‘Auto Workers Union domain. AF.L. spokesmen said that their organiz- ers would enter the field today. They are hoping to win auto work- ers away from the CIO group. Meantime another strika—with- out any sign of settlement is in progress between the CIO and Gen- eral Motors. General Motors won a skirmish Saturday with court as- sistance. The corporation trans- ferred auto dies from an independ- ent factory to a Buick division as CIO pickets stood by with folded arms, Union leaders, claim that Gen- eral Motors assigned work to the independent factory when it was formerly done in the corporation shops. —— | KING LEAVES Rowland King, mining engineer from Spokane, sailed Saturday night on the Prince George after several weeks in the Juneau and Chichagof districts examining mining prop- erties 1% above Saturday’s close. Loeft vas another strong issue on the up- side. | Trading was dull throughout the day . Prices were higher at the op- ening but slumped before noon, be- | lieved to be caused by increased for- eign tension and industrial troubles in the United States. The turnover for the day was under 800,000 shares. The bond market was extremely dull today with little trading on either side. Prices were fractional-| ally lower. Curb market prices were unchanged to fractionally lower in a dull session. Trading for the most part followed the pattern set by the big board. Closing price changes were: Unit- ed States Steel off %, Bethlehem off %, Chrysler off %, General Motors off %, Nickle off %, Anaconda off %, Santa Fe off %, New York Cen- tral unchanged, Edison unchanged, American Telephone and Telegraph unchanged. Douglas Aircraft off %, United Aircraft off %. Commodities gained today in both New York and Chicago. New York cotton closed 8 to 15 points higher. Chicago grains were on the upside. Wheat closed unchanged to % higher and corn unchapged to % higher. (ifizens Ad As Policemen BAR HARBOR, Me, July 31— This summer social resort hasn’t a large police force, but it has its Public Reserves. The Reserves, citi- zns of the town, purchased their own uniforms and equipment and aided the police in traffic and other duties in the height of the season. | sembled the evidence to show that, | cates overthrow of the Government £2662292 : Minois, $1 L, Nurih Dukota, $24.918, WE'RE HARRY BRIDGES' CASE RESUMING NEXT WEDNESDAY Unwilling Witness Delays Hearing - Defense Making Plans SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 31 —Delay of a rather unwilling de-| fense witness in starting for San Francisco makes it certain that the Harry Bridges deportation hearing would not be resumed before Wed- nesday. The witness, former spec- ial prosecutor Larry Doyle of Port- land, Oregon, is in St. Paul, Minn. The defense charges that Dayle as- Bridges is a member of the Com- munist party. The defense plans to attack Doyle’s motives and to attempt to show that coast maritime employers are back of the move to deport the Australian-born CIO leader. Doyle said in St. Paul that he will come to San Francisco only if he is guaranteed adequate expens- es. Defense attorneys said they had already posted an adequate | sum but understood Boyle demand. ed $50 a day. The former prose cutor was served with a subpoena | last week. | The Government closed its direct | case against Bridges Saturday, but | may call rebuttal witnesses later.| By agreement of attorneys 20,000 | words of extrasts from Communist literature were inserted into the record instead of being read. They were intended to prove that a Com- | munist is an undesirable alien be- cause the Communist party advo- by force and violence. Bridges admits that he is an alien but denies being a Communist. The defense expects to take abou! six weeks to present its case. The hear- ing probably will not be ended be- fore October. James Landis, who 1s considered | to be a keen student of law, thumbed through all the legal text books he could find to determine whether the Federal Government can call Harry Bridges as a prose- GETTING SANE ABOUT SYPHILIS, BUT— | some booklet, “And Sudden Death,” cution witness in his own deporta- | N 22031 5726 5944 b4 T3 % LA. 3 NOTE NUMBER OF PERSONS RECEIVING PAYMENTS IS SHOWN BY TOTALS WITHIN EACH STATE aid out old age benefits in 30 months of plan’s operation. ation. New York State’s payments were largest, totaling $2,822424. | 99,669; Ohio, $1,477,711; California, $1,285876. Alaska was lowest with $7,854. Other lows: Average June payments included California’s $88,86, New York’s $105; Yowa’s By ROBERT COOK | Editor or the Jouinal of Heredity | (Pinch-hitting for Preston Grover, on vacation.) WASHINGTON, July 31. — financing of America’s disease- fighting and accident-prevention army bristles with paradoxes. | Infantile paralysis, which even in epidemic years makes insig-) nificant contributions to the total | toll of the killed and crippled, re- ceives annually about $1,000,000 from one source alone — benefit | balls on the President's birthday. | The maiming by poliomyelitis| virus is bad. No doubt about it. But | is it as bad as 32,000 deaths and a | half-million injuries contributed by | automobiles each year? In 1937, an epidemic year, there| were 10,839 cases of infantile pa- raysis reported in the United States, with 1443 deaths. Not all non-fatal cases end in invalidism. So the totals in an epidemic year run to 1500 killed and five or six times that many injured. Suppose infantile paralysis killed 20,000 people and crippled 100,000 in one year. What an outcry there would be! The automobile does ap- pallingly worse than that, A FEW CAMPAIGNS We have our safety campaigns. We break into speeches and radio broadcasts. That compellingly grue- old its hundreds of thousands. But there is no popular demand for any effective action against this futile butchery. The experts tell us that tests now are good ehough to pick out | and eliminate many of the danger-; ous drivers; that 15 percent of the drivers have 80 percent of the ac- cidents. We have here the key o saving many times the number killed and crippled every year by infantile paralysis. And we wring our hands and do nothing. And the same thing goes for other situations, Tuberculosis has| fallen from the position of premier | killer 25 yers ago to seventh onl the list. But the National Tubercu- losis Association complains that public interest in TB has fallen faster than the death rate. Sixty- thousand dead aren't as much news as a thousand from infantile paralysis—and remember that TB cripples, too. | And above all those killers| stands cancer, with 135000 dead | (Continued on Page Five) (Cununu}d“n: Page Seven) Money Goes; Alaska Lowest 4P In effect, the TRAIN ROBBERS RUN INTO HAIL OF HOT BULLETS, Holdup of $56,000 Payroll Is Frustrated by | Mail Guards B ULLE TIN—CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, July 31.—Railway mail guards aboard an Illinois Cen- tral train this afternoon shot it out with three robbers near Delzey, wounding and captur- ing one and saving a $56,000 payroll destined for the Army air field at Rentoul. The robbers were driven off by a hail of bullets. Two of the train robbers es- caped in a small sedan after le?,ping Irouu the train, The mail clerk was beaten on the head by one of the rob- bers during the fight. The cap- tured robber was taken to the Champaign hospital. The robbers boarded the train when it stopped at Noarga. >, Japanesein New Atfack On Brifish Bombard ViITage Within Sight and Hearing of Hongkong HONGKONG, July 31.—Japanese bombing planes carried the Chinese war today to within sight and hearing of this British colony with a bombardment of Shumchun vil- lage, less than one mile from the territorial border and only 18 miles from the heart of the colony R RENOMINATED WASHINGTON, July 31.—Presi- jers to the plant, Case Deadlocked 'DISORDERS BREAK OUT, CLEVELAND Clubs Wielded, Bricks Are Tossed, Tear Gas Used in Bombing THOUSANDS ENGAGED IN DEMONSTRATIONS Non-shikefieep Right on at Work in Gen- . eral Motors Plant CLEVELAND, O,, July 31—A club wielding, brick hurling and tear gas bombing riot at the strike bound Fisher body plant of the General Motors Corporation today injured 42 persons, none seriously. A crowd of CIO auto workers, ef= timated by the police at between 5,000 and 6,000 massed at the gates Police Captain Michael Blackwell said fighting started after a brick was thrown through a window on an auto carrying several non-strik- ers t othe plant. At ledst 300 tear gas shells and hombs were thrown into the rioting mob from the third stroy windows of the plant and then the strikers replied with tear gas bombs and grenades. Many arrests of the CIO strikers were made and the majority admit- ted creating a disturbance. The mob was finally disersed. Officials said the plant was op=- erating as it has been throughout the strike which was called three weeks ago by the skilled die work- ers pressing demands for supples mental agreements, New Taxes For France Announced Bachelors and Childless Couples Will Be Hit- Situation Is Bad PARIS, July 31—Finance Minis~ ter Paul Reynaud painted a de- spairing picture of the situation the French government is in when he spoke last night over a nation- wide radio hookup in France. He announced new decrees that will ta particularly heavy both bache- lors and childless couples. Reynaud described the measures as another step in the renaissance of France. The Finance Minister said that the nation was faced with having to contend with living next to a nation which was on a per- petual war basis and continually being whipped into a fury by its leaders. Reynaud declared that France was in an armament race despite her efforts not to be. He said: “When one is in a race in order to be the swiftest runner it is necessary to exert the most power to win.” ODERRIVER 15 FLOODING BRESLAU, Germany, July 31.— German army labor crews worked frantically last night and this morn- ing to check the Oder River as it spread death and destruction dent Roosevelt has nominated Judge J. H. S. Morison for reap- pointment in the Second Judicial Division of Alaska with headquart- ers at Nome, throughout Sliesa in its world flood in history. 3 Dozens of villages are under wa=- ter as the flooded river swirls over most of the valley,