The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 3, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ———— _VOL. LIV., NO. 8172. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ALASKA DEFENSE PLAN PROPOSED * TO PROBE FISHERIES Committee Will Sail from Seaftle for Alaska | on August 20 PERSONNEL IS NOT | YET DECIDED UPON Places Where Hearings Will Be Conducted ‘ Are Announced WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Chair-| man Schuyler Otis Bland, of the| House Merchant Marine and Fish- eries Committee, said a seven-man | subcommittee will sail August 20 from Seattle on a six weeks' inves-| tigation of the Alaska fisheries. | The investigation was ordered| when the House unanimously ap- | proved of the resolution introduced | by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di-| mond. | The resolution instructed that an investigation be conducted of all questions pertinent to the conserva- tion of the Alaska fisheries and in- cluded is the offshore fishing con- ducted by aliens. Chairman Bland said today that it has not been determined which of the committee members will make the trip. It is expected that hearings will be cenducted at. Ketchikan, Crais ‘Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Cor- dova, Anchorage and Kodiak. | Becausegf the lateness of the sea- son it ddes not appear like that the committee will conduct hearings in the Bristol Bay area, although there is a possibility that some of the members of the investigators may fly in and take testimony there. SEVENMEN | | | JapanNow Suspicious, Brifain, U.S. Tokyo Believes Two Na-. fions Cooperafing Against Nippon TOKYO, Aug 3.—There is a grow- ing conviction in Japanese Army circles that Great Britain and the United States are cooperating to hinder Japan's Far Eastern policies and this has added an impetus to | efforts for an outright military al- liance with the Rome-Berlin exis. | It is learned authoritatively that | a conference of the five key min- isters of the Japanese Cabinet was | held last night and this big five has summoned high army officers, some | of them members of the Japanese | General Staff, to a conference to be held sometime today. Informed quarters assert that the United States abrogation of the trade treaty with Japan has given the army ultra nationalistic circles | fresh ammunition for their cam- paign. Just how the Rome-Berlin axis would aid Japan, if there is a con- | flict with the two largest of world powers, is not stated. SOVIET PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN TOKYO, Aug. 3.—Japanese mill-! tary authorities said Japanese air | forces have downed 69 enemy planes, presumably Russian, in four days of fighting on the Manchou- kuo-Outer Mongolia border. Reports indicate that large scale fighting is again in progress on the border. SOME SYSTEM PAULS VALLEY, Okla., Aug. 3.— Fred Rennie operates a golf course here. He also raises sheep and finds the two businesses go together fine. He turns 200 sheep loose and says they keep the fairways closely cropped. A STREETS OF PARIS—A French audience cheered when Marlene Dietrich, German-born star of American movies, sang “Madelon,” famous old war song, at the opera square in Paris. Miss Dietrich is now a naturalized American citizen. Davies Figlili Arms Embargo DIMOND JOINS FIGHT TO GET ALASKANS JOBS ’Abundance‘oTSkilIed Lab-! or Here for Indian Work, Says Northern Delegate Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di-' mond will do “everything possible” to have Office of Indian Affairs labor jobs go to residents of the Territory, John L. Covich, secretary of the mine union here is assured in a telegram from Washington w—i day. The message is as follows: “Secretary, Juneau Mine and Mill ‘Workers Union, Juneau, Alaska: “Re your telegram of the first; shall do everything possible to have all skilled and other labor employed Indian Bureau construction work in Alaska given to residents of Terri- tory for I know there is abundance of unemployed skilled labor in Al- aska. Dimond.” SCANDAL SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 3—A 24-count indictment has been feturned by a Federal Grand Jury today against Otto G. Kuklinski, National Guard Captain, in connection with a payroll padding inquiry. Kuklinski, San Francisco At- torney, is attached to battery F, 250th coast artillery. Valentine C. Hammack, As- sistant U. S. Attorney, said in- vestigation disclosed Kuklin- ski reported men at drill when they were not present and forged and passed their salary checks, He said more than $10,000 are involved. - e WE HAVE NO IDEA ENID, Okla., Aug. 3.—Somebody stole E. L. Swigert’s iron hitching post that he had kept on his lawn here out of sentiment for some 25} years. Swigert blames antique hunters. “Who else,” he reasons, “would. need it,” With a Chalk Talk oflurope By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—A few | hours after Senate big sticks had persuaded the President that he could not have the arms embargo act repealed this session, Ambassa- dor Joe Davies spread out a map of Europe before several Senators and gave them the jitters. In his way the Ambassador is Japan Breaks 0ff Negofiations With Brifain : BULLETIN—TOKYO, Aug: 3. Breaking off of negotiations with Great Britain is semi-of- ficially announced late this af- ternoon by the Japanese Gov- ernment, The announcement said that economic discussions will not be resumed unless Great Britain makes a proposal to reopen them. Housing Bill Killed Today; LatestRebuff House Refuses Even fo Consider Administra- ; tion’s Measure WASHIN ‘;).;,\ug, 3.—The ion of Republicans s this afternoon President’s $800,000,- killed the 000 Housing bill for this session. latest rebuff to the Ad- topped off last b | ministration | Tuesday's stunning defeat of the | Lending Bil } Today, as last Tuesday, the | i | House refused even to consider the legislation. The vote was 90 to 170. The Housing bill's defeat cleared away one more barrier to adjournment, but the Senate is still faced with a maze of problems mcluding the Third Deficiency bill. TAFTTOSS HATIN 1940 Willing to Become Candi- i date for Nomination, Senafor Says 6.0.P. RING f ! President Roosevelt and Postmaster General James A. Farley shaking hands as the latter said goodby to ‘re!um to New York and make ready to sail for Lurope, fused to discuss their conversations, particularly Political obser visit of Postmn tional Democratic party chairman, lent’s Hyde Park, N. Y., home s es. Both President Roosevelt a W JAPANESE WORLD FLIG s ponder the significance of the ster General James A. arley, na= at the presi- and their confer- nd Farley, shown re whether Farley third term. HITO START SOON: SCHEDULED T0 IRA CLAIMING " FUNDS COMING FROM AMERICA .Deny, However, that Mon- | ey Being Received from Germany something of a dramatist. From his| WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Senator LONDON, Aug. 3.—Members of | |listening post in Belgium he had Robert A. Taft of Ohio today ex-|in. 1rjsh Republican Army assert| gathered much information in re Pressed his willingness to become a (1o o major part of their funds | troop concentrations. He placed it ! imposingly on the map. Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was present and so were such Sen- ators as Harrison of Mississippi and Tydings of Maryland, who married the daughter of Davies’ present wife. e The Ambassador’s well-groomed | hand pointed to a couple of million men under arms in Germany, a smaller number in France, several hundred thousand in Poland, a ' million or more in Italy, others in |England, Africa, Russia. The Am- bassador added enough data of his | own to give the figures real color, A lively narrator can put guns across the shoulders of a string of |numbers, dress them in fighting | pants and set them marching. This was merely one of the | shows being staged in Washington |to convince the gears in the gov- | ernmental machinery that the sit- uation in Europe is critical. {ON THE CALENDAR? | The Administration was badly upset by the failure to get the | Senate to act on the repeal of the arms embargo. Such figures as Bo- |rah of Idaho and Johnson of Ida- ho, who had a hand in stymying ithe repealer, think there is more Administration yammering about the danger of war and American involvement than the situation de- | serves. But the comments of these two are frail voices by comparison with the babel of sound on the other side of the issue. Into’ that situation the Davies display fits, The Administration has given up plans to push the bill this session, but immediately after the dramatic reversal at the mid- night White House conference a quiet effort was started to get the bill nominally on the Senate cal- endar, even under a pledge not to bring it up for debate. The idea is that putting the bill on the calendar will improve the (Continued on Page Seven) candidate for the Republican Presi- dential nomination. The son of the former President and Chief Justice stated his posi- tion in a letter to George Eyrich, Chairman of the County Republican Executive Committee in Cincinnati, | which endorsed him for the Presi- | dential nomination. | ‘Tl be willing when the time |comes to give my consent to have |my name designated as first choice | by candidates for delegates through- out the State,” Taft said. “Wouldn’t Run Away” He told Eyrich his work as Sen- ator was extremely interesting and that he preferred it to any other job, but that he wouldn’t run away | from a harder job. | “Unless the whole present tend- ency of government is redirected we | cannot maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual |liberty in the United States,” he declared. “Leaders of the movement against | New Deal fallacies must have cour- |age to incur unlimited displeasure | of every vested interest whose selfish | purposes conflict with a radical pol- icy of reform.” >>e SONYU OTANI IS " DEAD IN CHINA {Had Charge_of Industrial Exploitation in Con- quered Area | TOKYO, Aug. 3.—Sonyu Otani, | President of the North China De- | velopment Company, charged with | industrial exploitation of the con- | quered areas of North China, died today at Kalgan, China. Otani was the chief Abbot of the powerful Honganji Sect of Japanese | Buddhists ‘before entering politics. Two of his brothers married sisters of the Empress of Japan. for the support of their organiza- tion were raised in the United States. At the same time IRA officials denied charges that they had re-| ceived money from Germany. Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare has signed a group of de- | portation orders against a dozen more Irish terrorist suspects. Meanwhile police continued their roundup and made arrangements |to ship those already ordered de- ported out of the country. IRA spokesmen were quoted as saying that the Terrorist campaign against the British government was | costing $50,000 a week. It was de-] |nied that any of the agents oper- ating in England were paid for their activities. PRIBILOF s REACHNOMEONAUGUST 15 SEATTLE, Aug. 3.—The Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Line an- nounces that the projected round the world flight by the Japanese plane Nippon, manned by Japanese newsmen, will start from Tokyo shortly with Nome, Alaska, as the first stop in foreign territory. The huge ship, powered by two 900 horsepower motors, is scheduled to arrive at Nome about August 15. The plane will then fly to White- | horse, thence to Vancouver and Se- | attle. ———————— DYNAMITE USEb, MARITAL STRIFE Estranged Husband and Wife Killed in Blast in Oregon OREGON CITY, Oregon, Aug. 3. —An estranged husband and wife were killed in a blast set off by the [husband as the aftermath of a marital rift. The woman's 15-year-old daugh- ter, by a previous marriage, was probably fatally injured. Lee Phillipy, 40, Lone Elder, Ore- gon, farmer, set off a dynamite charge when he called at the tem- porary trailer home of his wife and daughter Ruth. Phillipy was blown to bits and his wife’s body was hurled 150 feet into a tree. e SEAL TAKE ~ ISRECORD Over Sixty Thousand Skins Will Be Sold fo Ac- count of U. S. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — The| Bureau of Fisheries said this sea-| son’s take of Pribilof Island fur seal | skins is the largest since 1889. Acting Commissioner Jackson said a total of 60473 skins, an increase of 2,109 over 1938, have been taken. Included is 47,646 from St. Paul Island and 12,827 from St. George | 'BLOCKING GERMAN EFFORTS T0 FLOAT BIG ISSUE IN U. §. WASHINGTTON, Aug. 3. — The Securities and Exehange Commis- sion has temporarily upset German government officials’ efforts to float a $70,000,000 bond issue in the United States. They blocked the bond issue on the grounds that the Nazi government had failed to reveal facts concerning its official government budget, public debt and other important financial data. The commission will hold hear- ings on August 15 to give Germany a final chance to supply the in- | formation demanded. s v Island, The skins will be sold to the ac- }count of the United States Govern- | ment, 15 percent going to Canada' ‘:md 15 percent going to Japan. KETCHIKAN FAIR The fair at Ketchikan this will be held from September September 4, inclusive. year 1 to Farley Visits “Boss,” F. D. R—Both Mum on Pl:n}s was backing the president for a PARLIAMENT 10 ADJOURN ON FRIDA Critics of Chamberlain Are Answered by Vote of Confidence Prime Min- ister Chamberlain’s Conservative majority rebuked his critics last night by giving him a vote of con- | fidence. His critics had demanded that Parliament stay in session to prevent a second Munich. The vote was on the government’s motion to. adjourn Parliament tomorrow for the summer recess. The vote | was 246 to 129. The Laborite opposition leader, Arthur Greenwood, told Chamber- lain bluntly why the opposition | amendment, had been offered. Said | Greenwood: “What guaranty have we that when our backs are turned the government will not throw in its hand on the question of a triple alliance with Russia. How does the opposition know that the negotia- iuon.s in the Far East are not going to be another Munich?” Churchill Chips In The independent Conservative, Winston Churchill, joined in the demand that Parliament stay on the job during the so-called ecriti- cal months of August and Sep- tember. Churchill declared that the | situation was much more acute than a year ago. He said that Ger- many had huge forces massed |along the Polish border and was making all preparations for a swift advance. Belief Expressed Churchill told the House of Com- mons in his statement that he be- lieved in Mr. Chamberlain’s good faith but not in his good judg- ment, Chamberlain stated that he be- lieved that there was little likeli- hood that any emergency would arise in the near future. TO STICK NEAR HOME LONDON, Aug. 3.—The British cabinet members will remain with- in easy call of Prime Minister Chamberlain through Parliament’s August and September holiday it is announced. The ministers have for the most part announced thet they will spend the holidays at country homes nearby or take short | trips within easy reach of London in case the international tension again increases to near the break- ting point. ‘The harvesting period in Europe which is soon to start may possi- bly bring about new developments. - Legislatures State passed 600 Jlaws in the general field of wel-|. fare during 1939 sessions. IMPORTANT CONFERENCE " 10 BEHELD Air Routesmink United States and Canada with Alaska 'DOMINION OFFICIALS MEET WITH AMERICANS Prospective Improvements Are fo Be Studied at Ottawa WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — Air routes linking the United States, Canada and Alaska and improving American defenses in the direction of the Pacific will be outlined at a Canadian-American conference in Ottawa next Wednesday. The United States is sending three | officials from the State Department | and four from the Civil Aeronauticy | Authority to the Ottawa confer- | ence, Proposals to Be Studied Outstanding among the plans to be considered is the possible insti- tution of a plane service between the United States and Alaska with | or without stops in Canada. Three routes are contemplated— |one following the coast from Seat~ | tle, one partly over water and partly |over land, and one from Great | Falls, Montana, over Canada. ‘ For National Defense Officials view such prospective ! improvements in air transportation |as contributing to the national de- fense and in the background is the | possibility of instituting an air serv- |ice eventually between Great Bri- tain and the United States, through | Siberia, Alaska and Canada. Rumors are also that Great Bri- tain may seek an air service to the United States through Scandinav- | ian countries and over the polar re- | gions to Alaska. CRISIS IN POLAND IS NOW NEAR . Impending-fio wdown Over Danzig May Devel- op Within Few Weeks WARSAW, Aug. 3—There is a growing belief in Polish political circles that the impending show- down over Danzig will develop within the next few weeks. Polish government officials see numerous signs in the new direc- tion which Nazi agitation has sud- denly taken in the Free City. The new campaign is based upon a demand for closer economic re- lations between Danzig and the Reich, The Danzig Nazis seized | upon the action of the Polish gov- ernment in restricting importations of margarine and herring from the Free City to launch their demand for economic union with Germany. ‘The Nazis already are talking of a customs union between Danzig and Germany and the eventual supplanting of Danzig money with German currency, This move would have the effect of abolish- ing Polish customs and trade agree- ments in the Free City. It is asserted in Polish govern- ment circles that any attempt to oust Polish interests from Dan- zig by establishing economic ties with Germany will bring the Dan- zig crises to an issue. Polish spokesmen said that the Warsaw government will take en- ergetic action to prevent any such unilateral move on the part of the Danzig Nazis. Polish observers pointed out that within the past week or so Ger- many will have completed getting two million men under arms osten- sibly for summer maneuvers. German air maneuvers are sched- uled to be held in the northwest- ern part of the Reich which would be the region from which Nazi (Continued on Page Three)