The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e f—— VOL. LIV., NO. 8170. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1939. MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW SIGNS DISCORD THREATEN EUROPE (10 COAST LONGSHOREMEN SEEKING HIGH ER SCALE OF WAGES IN NEW AGREEMENT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 1.— The Pacific Coast CIO Union of Longshoremen today notified the | Waterfront Employers Association they wish to negotiate for increased wages, further strengthening of the | six-hour days, increased wages und | six-hour days, and definte wording regarding picket lines. These subjects Must be negotiated before contracts are renewed. The Waterfront Employers Asso- ciation have asked that the present agreement, which expires September 30 be continued without alteration. LENDING BILL GETS THROUGH UPPER HOUSE Funds Are Reduced for Loans—Economy Bloc Scores Triumph WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. — The Senate late yesterday passed the Administration’s Lending Bill after reducing the proposed loans by one billion dollars. | The final vote on the entire bill with amendments was 52 to 28. The bill was reduced from $2,- 800,000,000 to $1,615,000,000. | Although the Democrat-Republi- can coalition, the economy bloc, was beaten on the final vote, reductions represented the bloc’s greatest tri-| umph since the New Deal began. PROBABLY KILLED, HOUSE | WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — The| House refused to consider the Ad-| ministration’s billion, nine hundred | and fifty million dollar Lending | Bill This decision, according members, has killed the for this session. The vote was 193 against con- sideration to 164 in favor. A coalition of Democrats and Republicans successfully fought the adoption of the resolution setting | forth the procedure for formal consideration. | The bill passed the Senate late| yesterday but in a someWwhat dif- ferent form from the one sub- . mitted. | Rejection of the bill impelled| several members to predict ad- Jjournment will follow with a rush but over in the Senate, however, majority leader Barkley said the odds and ends of business might | keep Congress in session until Aug- | ust 9. . LEON WEISS INDICTED BY GRAND JURY Prominent Architect Alleg- ed Involved in Louis- iana State Scandal BATON ROGUE, La., Aug. 1— The grand .jury has indicted Leon C. Weiss, prominent New Orleans architect, on charges of aiding and abetting Dr. James Monroe Smith, former President of the Louisiana State University, for perpetrating embezzlment. Weiss is the senior member of the | firm which designed the $5,000,000 | Louisiana State Capitol, many other State buildings and also university L STARK ADMIRA SUCCEEDS LEAHY Harry Sark today succeeded Ad- miral Leahy. Admiral Leahy's retirement .was announced last spring when he reached the naval age limit. He will assume the position of Gov- ernor of Puerto Rico. Admiral Stark is a native of Penn- sylvania and one of the youngest men to succeed m the navy’s biggest Job, to some | measure | 4] s AT SEAWORTHY_For that beach © promenade when the wind’s blowing, Marion Martin of New York recommends this hand-crocheted fishnet bathing suit with a matching cape. DIMOND COMING T0 ALASKA WHEN CONGRESS QUITS Will Not Join Fisheries Probers-Discusses Hatch Bill By LISETTE RIGGS ‘Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 25.—(Spec- TROUBLE ZONES ARISE TODAY IN 2 LABOR CENTERS Helmeted St te Troopers | Called Out - Police | Quell Rioting By Associated Press | strikes and threatened strikes affecting nearly 25,000 persons to-| day and also serious trouble zones | centered in Cleveland, Ohio, and| South Barre, Massachusetts. In the Atlantic seaboard town,| ! stee]l helmeted state troopers pa- trolled the streets as the commun- | ity selectmen appealed to Lieut. Gov. Horace Cahill holding that “riots and bloodshed” was immi- nent. The troopers cleared the streets, breaking up sporadic fist fights af- ter a crowd of 3,000 assembled out- side of the gates of the Barre Wool Combing Company. About 200 of the plant’s 1,000 employees are on a strike and prevented non-strikers from going to work. Troopers have been mobilized throughout the state ready for emergency if necessary. In Cleveland | In Cleveland, where tear gas shell- | ing and brick throwing clashes be- | tween the police and some 5,000 to 6,000 strikers and sympathizers took place yesterday in which 46| persons were injured, riot zones were | established today outside of the General Motors Corporation plants | and also Fisher Body Plants. | Nearly 300 besieged workers spent | last night in the plants. | Pickets banded together as flying | squads but early this morning police | routtd all strikers and sympathizers in the trouble area and non-strik- ing employees entered the plants this morning without incident. | { BOAT HARBOR WORK BEGINS IN FEW DAYS | | | | | | { Crews Arrive This Morning -Dredge Expected | End of Week ‘ Dredging of Juneau’s small boat ! harbor is scheduled to begin some- time late next week, according to | officials of the General Construe- | tion Company. | Approximately twenty-five men ar- | rived on the North Sea and Aleutian this morning to take up residence here for the four or five months it | will take to complete the project. Harry Hart, of the U. S. En gineers, will have charge of th e p— e - Snow Party Is Pictured Before Avalanche Kil - T This picture of the Mount Baker climbing party, of Washington Teachers’ College, ng trapped. Rock mass at right center is § ENOUGH WORKTO KEEP BUSY FOR 50 YEARS ped after six. Nineteen of the party of 25 esca] TROLL - CAUGHT | SALMON BOUGHT ,((( HA AT SITKA NOW Buyers Resume Purchas- ing from Alaska Trol- lers Association Sub Rarisinfig Prevented by Sudden Storm Second Afie-nrm at Squalus Salvaging Further Delayed PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, Aug. 1.—A sudden electrical storm, accompanied by a 60-mile wind, to- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 1. —| A radiogram received here from Sitka says buyers announce getting troll caught salmon again at Sitka from all trollers of the Alaska Troll- ers Association. | It was also stated in the radio- gram received that independent trollers will be declared unfair nfl,eri August 2. RERFA S | | | GOES ABRO AD day slowed salvaging of the sunken | submarine Squalus as Navy men iben'. efforts toward a second attempt | to 1ift the vessel and her 26 dead Treasury Secrefary Leav- e men saida second attempt le was made just before a By ROBERT FECHNER Director, Civilian Conservation Corps | (Pinch-hitting for Preston Grover, on vacation.) 1. — For years the | Corps has | courses for! WASHINGTON, Aug. slightly more than six Civilian Conservation been charting new Uncle Sam in the conservation of youth and natural resourc- es. Sufficient time now has elapsed since the first CCC camp was established on April 17, 1933, to warrant some evaluation of the results of this new move- ment. MR. FECHNER Largely because the Corps' physi-‘ cal accomplishments are available | {in statistical form, the average man IPARTY OF :dflughter Maria there are also on board F. J. Adams ial Correspondence)—Delegate An-| work, while the operations of the | thony J. Dimond will return to the | dredging company will be in_ the Territory as soon as Congress ad-| hands of Capt. William Burke, Sup- | journs. with members of the bi-partisan Congressional Committee to be ap- pointed by Chairman of Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee Schuyer O. Bland. Asked if he expected to be a mem- ber of the committee, Mr. Dimond said no, he was familiar with fish- eries problems and thought it better for the United States to spend its funds acquainting other Congress- men with the needs of the Terri- tory. DIMOND ON HATCH BILL E. House. Dredge expert Loyal Wiren was among the arrivals this morning and will remain for a month seeing the big dipper derdge started off properly. The dredge is scheduled to arrive here the end of the week in tow of one or two tugs of the Foss Tug |and Barge Company. It is a dipper type dredge, the Titan, 115 feet long iand 40 feet wide with a depth of | 11 feet. It is capable of dredging 4,000 | yards of materigl every twenty-four He hopes to travel north| erintendent, and Chief Engineer F.| Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to- | hours with its steam powered five | day stated that there was no need cubic yard bucket that makes the | for an anti-political activity Hatch |unit appear much like a floating bill in Alaska. | steam shovel. | “Shooting is too good for anyone| Twenty - four - hour operation is who extorts money for political pur- | planned for, with three crews work- | ing Tomorrow on "Good Will” Trip WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. — Uncle Sam will send another “good will”| ambassador abroad tomorrow in the person of Treasury Secretary Mor—i genthau. The jaunt will be to the Scandinavian countries’and will be purely a pleasure trip. A highlight will come though when he stops in Finland to say| “Thank You” to the country offi-| clals for their prompt payments on | their war debt to the United States. | — e TREE-MENDOUS MERCER, Me.,, Aug. 1.—A gran- ite marker here, only monument to a tree in Maine, says: “In memory poses from those on relief,” said the Delegate, adding that there had never been any suspicion of political coercion in the Territory under either party. Coercion would have a reverse ef- fect in Alaska, maintains the Dele- gate and any would-be intimidator well knows that even if he escaped physical injury, that his intended victim would vote the other way to show his Alaskan independence The Hatch bill prohibits political activities of officeholders except policy-making officials, bans their becoming delegates at political con- ventions, outlaws intimidation or so- licitation of those on relief and for- bids any person from promising a Federal job or benefit to another. ing eight-hour shifts. {of an Elm tree which stood in 1870 at lifting may be made within 10|probably is better acquainted with days. what the CCC has done in the| building of new forests and the | conservation of farm lands, than in other phases of the CCC program. Yet no one acquainted with the work of the Corps can doubt that the work achievements are at least | equalled by the results in im- proved health, mental outlook and earning ability of jobless youth. Since the first CCC man was en- rolled, more than 2,200,000 young men and a considerable number of war veterans, Indians and resi-| Not Making Good on PI’OflliSCS dents of Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have left their AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 1—Direc-|homes to work for from a few tor Jan Anderson of the Texas Pen- |Mmonths to two years in the health- Ision Union charged Gov. O'Daniel(ful outdoor atmosphere of a na- | with false promises and failing to | tionwide chain of CCC camps. make good on his election speeches | Some 4,200 CCC camps of 200 men for $30 monthly old age pensions, |¢ich have operated for varying Anderson wrote the Governor re- |lengths of time in national, state questing an immediate special ses-|and private forests, in national and | sion to deal with the pension mat- |State parks, on agricultural lands P SEEKS INCREASE, | TEXAS PENSIONS Governor Charged with st od Six of Them snow slide hit the party, killing Roman Wall, from which the slide started. TS OIL MEN MAKING 5. E. ALASKA TRIP 'Leave Kefchikan Aboard| Yacht Marie Dolores— May Come fo Juneau KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 1— On a fishing, hunting and sight- seeing cruise, Clifford Mooers, oil company president of Houston, Texas, his family and friends, left Ketchikan yesterday afternoon on Mooers 82-foot cruiser type diesel yacht Maria Dolores for Southeast Alaska points and may go to Ju- neau. The party left Seattle, where the yacht is kept, last Tuesday. Besides Mooers, his wife and Dolores Mooers, and wife and H. B. Fuqua and wife, |all of Fort Worth, Texas. Fuqua and Adams are also in | the oil business. LID T0 60 “ileN YUGOSLAVIA SPRINGS UP IN TROUBLE Croatian Au?o~n;>my Leader Making Demands for His Followers DANZIG SITUATION IS AGAIN GROWING TENSE Customs Officials Enforcing Cerfain Bans—Espion- age Fought (By Associated Press) New signs of internal discord in Yugoslavia and increasing Polish watchfulness over the Danzig sit- | uation, were straws in the wind to- |day in Europe’s struggle to preserve Ppeace. Dr. Viadko Machek, Croatian au~ tonomy leader, threatened secession i |of Yugoslavia unless his followers' demands were met, even if it meant a world war The demand is for German protection over the inde« pendent state of 5,000,000 Croats. In Poland In Danzig, Polish Customs offic- ials began enforcing the ban on fat products exports, Danzig to Poland, and extending the “herring and margarine war.” which began when Polish authorities restricted fish shipments several weeks ago. Reprisals There are indications of reprisals jand counter reprisals. These repris- als might extend to a long list of | articles, Foreign Espionage In Warsaw, it appears that the Polish Government has launched & campaign against foreign espionage. Political activity is attributed to Germans in Poland. A strict watch is being kept on German societies and several have already been ord- ered to disband. It is also announced that an un- {disclosed number of Polish-Ukran- |ians, the nation’s largest minority, have been arrested . Some of the | Ukrainians have been in touch with | Berlin for months, e 'MONEY FOR PROBE IS AVAILABLE Appropriati—&; Are Made Including Alaska Investigation UPON TEXAS Drive Is to Start on Gam- bling and Saloons in Lone Star State Speaker Bandkhead said he has AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 1.— Gov. O'- |not decided whom he will select for Daniel started today a drive against |the five-man committee that has open gambling and saloon operalion}already been authorized but he will in the state. He called on all citi- |make the appointments before Con- zens to help clean the mess up. He |gress adjourns. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Acting speedily on the recommendations of its Accounts Committee, the House today appropriated $50,000 for in- vestigation of the National Labor Relations Board. | Materials from the dredging op- | | erations will be dumped into twe) ninety-foot hopper barges that ar-| rived here a short time ago. The waste material will be towed from the small boat harbor site, on the north side of the Douglas Bridge, to a’point a short distance south of | the bridge. The tug Schanck, from Wrangell, owned by Wrangell City Clerk L. C.| Chisholm, is due here shortly to aid the dredge, while it is expected an- | other tug of a smaller sort will be | picked up in Juneau and chartered. | The dredge Titan was working at | Portland, Oregon. a few weeks ago, | and has been towed down the Wil-| lamette and Columbia rivers, thence | three-fifths mile north of the vil- lage bridge. It was 32 feet in circum- | ference, breast high, and was be- lieved to be the largest tree ever grown in New England.” ter. He said pensions represent an |average of only about $15 a month and the average will drop to $5 monthly this fall unless the legis- lation is carried out. CONGRESSMAN FITZPATRICK ENTHUSED OVER MATANUSKA Already Representative Fitzpatrick FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 1- Congressman James M. Fitzpatrick of New York. member of several im- portant House Committees, is en- | interior and advocates continued is greatly astonished at the great | around through the open ocean, and | is dué in Juneau about Friday if | stormy weather subsides. (Continued on Page Two) FBI RESUMES IN ALASKA J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the (Continued on Page Three) thusiastic over the Matanuska Col- ony after interviewing the families there. He arrived here yesterday and is busy looking over the in- terior, development of interior transporta- tion facilities and further facilities in Mount McKinley National Park, including a Wonder Lake Hotel. and on wild life refuges. | T | MORE THAN 1,500 CAMPS ! At present more than 1500 camps |are in operation. At maximum strength these camps have an en-| | rolment of 311,000, Out of the CCC| | camps each day go some 300,000 en- rollees to plani trees, build truck charged that local officials intend to leave the enforcement to state officials. Said Gov. O'Daniel: “Open gam- bling and saloons will not be toler- ated in Texas as long as I have any- thing to do with it.” The Governor has recently been under heavy pressure from various civic and welfare organizations. ADMITTANCE PRICE trails, erect fire detection towers,| improve grazing conditions, reha-| bilitate reclamation projects and drainage ditches, conserve water and prevent floods, to conduct cam- paigns against tree blight and ro-| dents, and to do a host of other jobs related to conserving and re-| building the nation’s resources. Some forest and park officials | estimate national forest and park | development programs have been | advanced from 20.to 30 years. Not-| 7 (Continued on Pa;eisevenj : T0 WORLD'S FAIR TO DROP TWO DAYS NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—The Ex- ecutive Committee of the “World’s Fair” announced that the price of mission is going to be lowered from 75 cents to 50 cents on Sat- urdays and Sundays This move, it ‘The House has also appropriated $15,000 for its Merchant Marine Committee's investigation of Alaska Pisheries and $5,000 for the Ways and Means Committee between ses- sions to study tax problems. Jackie Still Loves Betty HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 1. — Jackie Coogan said today that he still loves Betty Grable, his blonde wife but will not contest the di- vorce, Miss Grable filed a suit against “the kid of the silent screen” last Saturday. She charged him with various acts of physical and men~ tal cruelty. is hoped, will bolster lagging gate| Betty and the former juvenile receipts, which have dropped more |star were twice separated and than 90 per cent in the past three|twice reconciled during their two weeks. years of married life.