The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1939, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE e ——— VOL. LIV., NO. 8177. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'ALASKA CENSUS TO BE TAKEN IN OCTOBER umor Received Japan Seeks Peace in China; APPEAL SENT OUT BY AR, REPORTNOW Immediate Armistice May‘ Be Arranged Under | Certain Conditions | HONGEKO? China, Aug. 9. | —A sweeping peace appeal, os- tensibly approved by the Jap- anese High Command, includ- ing a promise for withdrawal of Japanese troops under cerfain conditions, tenight by Wang Wi, former Premier of China, now acting in concert with the Japanese leaders. Speaking over the radi the Japanese held city of C: tin, Wang told fellow Can- tonese Chinese, in general, of perce assurances received from | the Japanese, including Gen. Ando, Commander-in-Chief of | South China, and asserted that | if the Chinese leaders “declare publicly for peace and oppose Communism” an immediate ar- mistice could be arranged. DIMOND ASSURED BUREAU PLANS TO | Office of Indian Affairs Authorized fo Trans- | port Residents WASHINGTON, August 9.—The Office of Indian Affairs will exhaust the Alaskan supply of skilled labor before importing workers from the States to carry out its current school and hospital construction program, officials of the bureau have advised Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. A recent authorization of the Comptroller General permitting the bureau to import necessary skilled | labor at government expense also provided it could pay the cost of | transporting skilled workers from one section of the Territory to an- other. | “I have been assured the bureau intends to utilize all available Al- askan labor first, resorting to the importation of workers from the States only if it is found the Ter- ritorial supply is inadequate,” Di- mond said. The Comptroller General's author- | ization arrived too late to affect v.hl.s; year’s building program. Construc- | tion foremen and carpenters for Office of Indian Affairs jobs in Al- | aska were all brought from Seattle, except two men from Juneau who agreed to pay for their own trans-| portation to and from the work. | FDR SIGNS TWO | ALASKA BILLS Rivermen fo Come Under Refirement Aci-Post- ; masters Nofaries WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—A bill| extending the provisions of the Al-| aska Railroad employees’ retirement act to Alaska Railroad employees engaged in river boat work, was signed by President Roosevelt to- | day. The bill also removes certain limi- ‘ tations affecting the computation of retirement benefits. | | ONE FOR POSTMAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Author- ' ity for postmasters in Alaska to ad- minister legal oaths and affirma-| tions, and to perform other duties of notaries public was given today in a bill signed by President Roose- velt. Purpose of the legislation, the Post Office Department said, is to pro- eventual | wzs[ | fees for notarial servic J apane Japan and jeering at England and her stand in the Orient. Banners with anti-British slogans were flaunt- tried to climb the embassy walls in the largest mas: Photo above shows start of an informal “heckling” parade gathering to ma Soldier in fnu'fi.'roulld is shouting instructions Ihruuxh a m(‘g.lphum' to the crowd. ed by the mob which clashed with tion in Japan's history. on the embassy. Mobs Hoot at British Embassy, Tokyo SHOTFIRED e NEW CRISIS OVERDANIIG Confrolled German News- papers Making At- facks on Poland | LONDON, Aug. 9. | International polic (Congressman Tinkham Is empLOY ALASKANS Urged fo Hunt Lions in State 0' waShinglon, NO' A'r i(a President Roosevelf (rifi- WAGEANDHOUR LAW VIOLATORS WILL BE SOUGHT New Assault on Those Charged with Not Liv- ing Up to Law | WASHINGTON, Aug. —Wage and Hour Chief Andrews prepared | today to make expansion in his ef- forts to bring wage and hour vio- | lators to justice. Andrews pointea out that since | the enactment of the law every case of criminal wage hour c sulted in a conviction. The congressional session ending last Saturday provided $1,200,000 | for the new assault against vio-| lators. | Andrews said that he plans m‘ the near future to appoint 500 deputy prosecutors to handle xhx-i’ Heretofore money hz the m‘\\} ministration. been lacking to enforce law. vide an accommodation for resi-| | dents in sparsely settled parts of the | Territory. The act permits post- masters a right to charge the u,sual‘ B Chicago Visitor Is Complimented A luncheon this afternoon was given | by Mrs. Charles Sabin at her home |on West Seventh Street for Mrs. John J. Dolhanty of Chicago, who is visiting in this city with her cousin, Miss Nell McCloskey. The table centerpiece was a lovely arrangement of garden flow- ers and 12 guests were invited for the afternoon. e——— DEASE LAKE BULLDOZER An 11-ton bulldozer recently ar- rlved at Wrangell and was shippes on the steamer Hazel B. No. 2 to | - | fall tion brought into courts had !(4‘, the Dease Lake district, By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. t this point we might as well confi | we lost our principal battle of the 'recent session and that is to have Representative Tinkham, Congress' most famous big game hunter, hunt lions in America. He is forever going off to Africa to shoot lions. It is conceded at onc: that very superior lions grow in! Africa, perhaps better than the Am- erican breed, but a home product should not be sniffed at. Senator Bone of W%hm(.;lnn | broached the suiject. He had been reading statistics. He was sur- prised that in Pennsylvania there | were thousands and thousands of deer in spite of its being a densely | populated eastern seaboard state| | with an eager quota of hunters. He [ decided it was largely the lack of paye speeded economic recovery but | mountain lions that permitted the ! state to preserve the deer for the! hunting season. Out in the Olympic Peninsula, which is a sizeable strip of terri-| tory, there are also thousands of deer. But also there are hundreds of mountain lions, each of which knocks off 50 to 200 deer during the year. waste, both economic and statisti- cal, for the mountain lions to bat 118,000 complaints before the Ad |dwn 50 many fine venison steaks. LEGI\LATIVE LION HUNT Senator Bone, being of a legisla- | tive mind and no lion hunter, sug- gested that the bilogical rvey ought to shove a band of profes- sional lion hunters into the Olympic | forest and track the rascals down. Perhaps it was lack of cooperation that failed to bring us success, for Senator Bone didn't offer to help much when we suggested that Rep- resentative Tinkham would do very well. He is truly a first rate big game hunter. He holds an award of some sort for having killed six leopards in one day, Which is prac- tically the tops in leopard killing. He also has killed lions, many of them. He even brought down an elephant. He showed us a picture of it. But he would not get exeited| about hunting mountain lions. We argued that Theodore Roosevelt, also a famous lion hunter, had con- sidered mountain lion hunting a fair sport and also good politics That was no argument for Tinkham that political business. The Republi- can colony he represents up in Mas- sachusetts elects him to the House without his even campaigning. Sev- (Continuea on Page Four) ss that | It does seem an anIll’ circles fear a new crisis regarding the Free City of Danzig b e of the controlled German press in- | tensification of anti-Polish propa- ganda attacks. The newspaper attacks followed the visit of the Danzig Nazi leader Albert korester who has been con- ferring with Chancellor Hitler at his mountain retreat s printed in the German charged Poland with plan- ning to blast the Free City off the demonstra- be re-united with Germany. One paper declared that Ger- many’s patience is nearing an end and that the end of Poland can be the only result of trouble that may start. At the same time the War- saw papers print reports that Po- land will receive intimate from Russia should a war break |out. The articles indicated that all | differences between Poland and her Soviet neighbor have been | smoothed over. - - ".i‘i FRENCH CHARGED TAKING GAMBLE lsm CONGRESS ~ ONWORLD PEACE | cizesRecent Ses- 1 sion sAchons HYDE PARK, N, Y, President Roosevelt recently adjourned Congress for, he put it, “Gambling on world pe and economic recovery.” The President told his press con-| ference that Congress left the United | States out on a limb by adjourning ,without passing the Neutrality ArL' or the spending lending program. The President said he sincerely hoped that Congress gambled on |the right side. He said that the| | United States would be in an embar- | rassing situation should a war break as- CUSTOMS DUTIES, High Officials Called in by Federal Grand Jury out before the next Cong ldh ‘ Probings | The ehier Zxecutive declared that e NEW YORK, Aug. torney John Cahill has forwarded to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, charges that the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has permitted | his spending, lending program would Congress apparently believed that it was not needed. The President interposed a do- | mestic note in his news conference i for smuggling commercial films in- when he said that he and Mrs. Roo- sevelt discussed the defeat of the to the United States { Nentrality Bill and the- lending, Cahill forwarded the charges at the request of the Federal Grand Jury which made its from public presentment The jury also charged the French | government tourist bureau, the | French Consulate in this city, the French Lire, and its General Man- spending program at the breakfast table. President Roosevelt said that he jand Mrs. Roosevelt had agreed that | the failure to pass his program would lead 20,000,000 United States citi- zens over the precipice of economic disaster. The President said that| since Congress had blocked his pro- | €ight other individuals were active |gram there would be no way for private industry to absorb workers|of United Stat who will be released on curtailment | = of the various Federal programs which can not be kept up. ‘JOH"SON lEADS neutrality, lending and heusing| LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 9. programs, President Roosevelt|Lieut. Gov. Keen Johnson maintain- tackled a file of bills today which |4 “";“ of more than 27,000 votes | Congress did approve of during the |today in the Kentucky Democratic closing days. gubernatorial primary. Returns from At the conference with newsmen omly » ‘EYV bundred ?! the state’s 7 4300 precincts are missing. yesterday the President said -that| ™ gpeervers believe that it will be the solid Republican minority and virtually 'i.mm'&sihl;n |about 22 percent of the Democrats supported John Young Brown to in the House, also 25 percent ('r.overcome Johnson's lead those in the Senate gambled that there will be no war until 1hvy‘ IN MISSISSIPPI have time to act on the Neutrality| JACKSON, Miss, Aug. 9. Former | Act after reassembling next Janu-|congressman Paul Jones maintains | ary. |a lead of approximately 4,500 votes | Cllswm\ duties. | GETS TO BILLS | HYD EPARK, N. Y. Aug. 9. - {After having spent his shot at| {those legislators who blocked his | ——,——— JAMES HARRIS DIES lof the precincts reported in the James Harris, 80, pioneer resident | pemocratic primaries for Governor. of Cordova died recently, passing ? Gov. Cennor is his nearest rival with away in his sleep. He first came 10| State Representative Thomas trail- Alaska in 1896, ing. for the CIO| |today with more than one-third| WARSAW, Aug. 9—The Polish | Telegraph Agency reports a Polish fFrontier Guard shot and appar- ently wounded one of three Ger- man soldiers who crossed the fron- tier into the Kartuzy district, Po- lish corridor, o NOW FEARED map rather than permit” Danzig to| support | with evasions; | JAPAN; AXIS i 9-U. 8, At-| its diplomatic pouches to be used) allegations | ager Morizt De Linelays, as well as|te in the scheme to evade payment|lives of Cabine | close to the Eniror, are the pow-|Cross mobilized its forces to dis- erful group of “Young Army of- pense food and medical aid to the | ficers,” demand a strong military stricken areas. with the Rome-Berlin axis Lester Baker, 31, was Killed when Rumors are current thal the yhe gwister leveled a greenhouse t officers are threal- in geofts, ten miles south of here. lened over the issue which might| 15 yearby Comstock, where the | cause the Cabinet’s fall because of gyorm struck with devastating force, | its opposition to any | | | I Edith Hammond, shown as she arrived in New York from London, wondered if her face and figure would become as famous here as it has in England, where she won 57 beauty conls She held the title of “Miss London” for several seasons, she said. DEADLOCK IN oo | | Scores Hurt InTornado; OnelsDead Wild Winds Hit Michigan| with Devastating Force —Damage Great IS QUESTION Lives of C;bi—net Officials| Are Reported fo Be Threatened | Aug. 9. KALAMAIO() Mich., Northland’s Noses Will Be Counted Dog Sleds, Planes Boats, Snow Shoes fo Be Used -Director Coming WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Uncle Sam will begin an offic- ial count of noses in Alaska in Octorber. Workers will be sent out by * dog sleds, boats, airplanes, on snowshoes and other forms of transportation to cover the vast territory and the many islands in Bering Sea. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins has ordered Dwight R. Hammack, veteran of the Census Bureau, at San Fran- cisco, to proceed to Alaska and select 200 supervisors and en- umerators to carry on the work. Hammack will spend approx- imately six weeks in various parts of Alaska lining up the census crews, giving out sup- plies and arranging transporta- tion facilities. Hammack expects to leave San Francisco for Alaska in about three weéeks, it is an- nounced. POLICE PLOT ON BRIDGES IS REVEALED Portland Of—fi;rs Tell of Dictaphone in CIO Leader’s Room SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 9. —Details of the secret installation of a dictograph in a Portland hotel room to obtain evidence against Harry Bridges was revealed for the first time today by Capt. John Keegan, of the Portland police department. It was also disclosed that Stan- ley “Larry” Doyle, termed by Bridges defense committee as the “mainspring” of a conspiracy to deport the CIO leader, aided in the installation of the device. (By Associated Press) s % < s el locked | Crews of workmen began clearing| Keegan first said he knew Japan’s rulers are reported locked | Sews O WOTRECE MR DR | nothing about installation of —the in" a bitter struggle over whether oo b ™ winde that last night device in the Multnomah Hotel, to conclude outright alliance with | ripped through western and central until W completed, but later Germany and Ttaly. | Michigan, killing one man and in-|he said Doyle and Sergeant Wil- = . % liam Browne talked the matter The situation is extremely tense Juring scores. il in the Japanese Capital City | The storm, which left hundreds The officer testified that Bridges Arrayed against the Japanese L’"f{';’,‘"?" 'v"nl'“f’_""‘f"dtdam“gfi"t‘f was the obect of investigation be- uildings and crops at a figure he “ss & Cdmmunist, was Cabinet ana other hign officials \near g million dollars, as the Red serious FUro- more than two-score persons were treated for injuries. has pean commitments, ar Minister Gen. Itagaka anged to report to the Emperor tomorrow on the Army attitude SEVEN Go WES'I' - e WITH COLUMBIA The steamer Columbia left Ju- neau for the Westward late yester- afternoon and took seven pas- ,(nw‘ls from here, as folows: For Seward—A. Reinikka, Mrs, H. M. Tulles, Anne Hague, Sylvia Lev- BASEBALL TODAY National League Boston 4; New York Cincinnati 7, 8; Chic Pittsburgh 3; 8t. Louis American League Boston 5.6; Philadelphia 3 enson, R. W. Douglas and H. M. g 1 e Burriss 3;“.:;:,':[» 'i,,.fil,',,‘,‘]l“,,m ’ For v;mw Dave Hommm New York 13; Washington 8 G i ARE 3 AIRMEN KILLED (HRYS[ER “.l- LONDON, Aug. 9—The Air Of- fice announced today that Leslie Phillips, aireraftsman, was killed WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. Aug. 9. with two other Royal Air Force —Walter P. Chrysler, automobile men in the crash of a bomber near manufacturer, is critically ill at East Bourne Sussex. Phillips was his home, it is revealed, from Victoria, B. C, cause installing Communism in the Long« shoremen’s Association.’ Keegan added that his men had conducted investigation of the Maritime Federation convention by questioning delegates and others because “I wanted to know what was going on at that convention.” Investigafions of Louisiana Scandals Being Exfended SHREVEPORT, La., Aug. 9. — Investigations of Louisiana's politi- cal scandals shifted today to the state’s second largest city when Pederal officials charges violations of income tax laws. Louisiana’s Internal Revenue col- lectors are organizing for a thor- ough search of records for evasions by several men high In the cities politics. A grand jury will be called early in September to hear the cases. Income tax evasion charges have already been brought against po- litical leader Seymour Weiss and former Gov. Richard Leche by a Pederal Grand Jury now sitting in New Orleans,