The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8179. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e e —r—— | PRICE TEN CENTS DEMANDS OF LONGSHOREMEN REJECTED President Warns Party Against ‘S WON'T HELP [Eloped—Went Home EUROPE'S /9 DIE WHEN ELECTION OF REACTIONARY Predicts Fafir—e of Demo-; crats in 1940 Unless Liberal Nominated HITS "'STRADDLEBUG"” PLATFORM PROSPECT' Calls Consefi;flves inOwn and Republican Camps | Blind of Future ‘ i { i PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 1l President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a message to the Young Democrats’ National Convention, declared that if Dem: ts insist upon nominat- | ing “conservative or lip service can- didates” in 1940 he will refuse to take part “in such an um‘orumatei suicide of the old Democratic party.” The message was read at the con- | % vention by Retiring President Pltt‘ Tyson Maner of Alabama. The President said: “If we nom- inate conservative candidates or lip| service candidates on a straddlebug platform I personally for my own- self respect and because of my long service to and belief in liberal Dem- | ocracy will find it impossible to have any active part in such untartunaL° suicide of the old Democratic party.” Predicts Conservative Failure He predicted the party would “fail if it goes conservative next year or if it is led by people who can offer naught but fine phrases.” The President said he did not ex- pect such an eventuality “for T be-} lieve the convention will see polin-i cal wisdom as well as national wis-| dom in giving voters of the United States an opportunity to maintain in practice the policy of moving for- ward with a liberal and humanitar- | ian program.” Sceres Reactionaries ‘The President lashed “Republican and Democratic reactionaries who want to undo what we have accom- plished in these last few years and| return to the unrestricted individ- ualism of the previous century. “Republican and Democratic con-| servatives admit all our recent poli- cies are not wrong and that many of them should be retained, but their eyes are on the present. They give no thought to the future and thus, without meaning to, are failing to solve even current social and econo- mic problems by declining to consid- er the needs of tomorrow.” | ROOSEVELT FOR PRESIDENT | PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 11. — A| song, “Mr. Roosevelt, Won't You, Please Run Again” rang through the | convention rooms of the Young Democrats of America today. The tune was written by the au- 1Conunued on Page Two) | NO SPECIAL SESSIONTO BE CALLED President Sees No Reason; for Congress fo Meet in Fall as Yet HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 22.—| Seeking to scotch reports that he will call a special session of Con- gress this fall, President Roosevelt said at a conference with news- men today that as far as he knew at present, there is no reason for | calling Congress back. The President added that if an| actual crisis regarding war be-| comes imminent in Europe or the Far East, in other words, if it be- comes reasonably certain there is going to be war, he probably will immediately call for a special ses- sion. Veronica Stearns (above),19, social- | ite daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert | B. Stearns of Irvington-on-the- tfudson, N, 7., eloped to Elkton, Md., with Douglas N. Lamy, society aviator. Then, worrying about how .er parents would feel, she left her rraid ncw groom and went home, AlASI(AN REWEDS ' DIVORCED WIFE; ON HONEYMOON Daniel Jack;n, Mae Jack- son Married Again-See | Fair - Come North - FATENOW ARMY PLANE UNCERTAIN MAKES DIVE Powers AreTNatthing Im-‘ Bomber Carries Entire portant Meet of For- Crew fo Death in eign Ministers Burning Crash ""WAR OR PEACE"” MAY BE FLAMES BURST OUT | BIG ISSUE TO BE SOlVED AS SHIP STRIKES| Mussolini Understood fo A((ldeM Occurs at Langley Be Against Conflict Field in Training with Poland Tnp Takeofl (By Associated Press) LANGLEY FIELD Va., Aug. 11— Uneasy Europe today turned to | Nine Army men were killed today in | the meeting between the Foreign the burning crash of a twin- motored Ministers of Italy and Germany for bombing plane. | an answer to the question of “War The crash, apparently due to mo- | or Peace?” | tor trouble, occurred as the plane This question was not answered was taking off on a local training wholly, as regards the Free C\Ly‘flluht, ‘ of Danzig, in the speech late yes-| Army post officials listed the dead terday by Nazi Leader Albert Fors- as: Second Lieut. Homer MacKay, | | ter, although he made a bristling pilot; Second Lieut. Thomas But-| attitude but only revealed that Ger- ner, Air Corps Reserves; Technical many would fight for Danzig, if Po-|Sergeant, William Morgan; Staff land made the attack. Sergeants Raymond Shelley, william ! Meeting of Ministers Kirkpatrick and Howard Jauernig; Italian Foreign Minister Count ! Corporal Peter Bunyk, and Privates Ciano today went to Salzberg, in Anthony Reale and Roy Leopold. Germany, to talk with German For-| Home addresses of the nine dend eign Minister von Ribbentrop, at| are not immediately available. Premier Benito Mussolini’s sugges-| The plane plunged to earth from tion to discuss the Danzig issue, also a height of about 150 feet and burst what to do about the Balkans as well instantly into a roaring inferno, pre- as the Far East. 1veming all attempts At rescue. Important Meeting | The wrecked ship was a B-18-A Throughout Europe -today, it is type, one of the general types of acknowledged that the meeting of Which the Army Air Corps has mole the Axis Ministers may be a mo-"-hfln 200 in service. mentous event, and even Europe's peace may hinge on their talks. NAVY PLANE CRASHES Is Against Trouble SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 11.—Two There is widespread belief that Navy fliers were killed today when | Mussolini is opposed to any acnon‘their plane crashed at eramx that might lead to a conflict in Po- |landing field, north of here. land and will urge moderation. | The dead are Ensign T. R. Wood, Blackout Demonstration 28, Naval Reserve pilot, and V. P.| In England, millions of Britons Armstrong, 33, Radioman, First | watched the make-believe war and Class. | hoped that real war would not come. The plane was attached to Lhc‘ | As dawn broke Great Britain’s great- | U. S. S. Saratoga. ‘The plane crashed while engaged 'WESTERN ALASKA | over | proved when | for the new service by power boat | | contract for the SEATTLE, Aug. 11.—Divorced 2g ©St blackout demonstration of civ- years ago aDniel Jackson, 71, of ilian and military defenses against Sitka, and Mae Jackson, 64, of Se- bombing raids ended, and the mimic | attie, are to be married again to- iF raid also ended. British-Japanese Dispute day so they may visit the Golden | Gate Exposition together. | Another step toward solution of <(he British-Japanese dispute re-| Jackson is one of the oldest Past ! | garding the Tientsin blockade is dis- Exalted Rulers of the Elks Lodge.|closed with Great Britain’s an- He said he and his “bride” will| nouncement that four Chinese will start their second honeymoon im- be handed over to the Japanese au- mediately after the ceremony and thorities for trial at Tientsin. The| returning, he will take his brde Chinese are accused of killing a Jap- | to Alaska where he went 21 years|anese police officer and it was the ago after the divorce. |refusal of the British authorities “We have aiways been good pals,” | to surrender them that started the | Tientsin trouble. | The Tokyo Viewpoint In Tokyo, however, the main | stumbling block is the trouble over | | Great Britain’s refusal to withdraw | | her support of the Chinese Central | Government's currency in which| London and other powers are con- cerned. In Tokyo the contention | lis that the issue is solely between reat Britain and Japan. There! are signs, however, that negotia- ‘nom although dfadlocked now, will | be resumed. -, |Marriage Again Possible ' At Yakufat WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—A new | mail, passenger and freight route | 1,000 miles of hazardous waterway in Alaska, stands ap- President Roosevelt signed the measure making effec- tive an authorization on the Post Office Department for a contract Jackson said. The couple separated after marriage of 14 years. Al T0 GET SERVICE; MEASURE SIGNED Post Office De Deparfment Is‘ Authorized fo Make New Contract Yakutat’s pressing matrimonial | situation was alleviated today when | District Judge George F. Alexander | appointed George A. Morelander, Government teacher at the Gulf of Alaska village, the first Marriage Commissioner in the First Division. Braves and maidens at Yakutat | haven't had the opportunify of be- coming legally united since the U. S. Commissioner there resigned. Morelander was appointed under Chapter 71 of the 1939 Session Laws, | creating the office of Marriage Com- missioner. ———————— OSBORNE TO CAMP PERRY between Seward- and points to Bristol Bay. The Senate committee said that under the existing regulations, mail boats are not permitted to accept | passengers and freight. The bill, as signed, authorizes the Post Office Department to service at not |from 1932 to 1936 inclusive. | Campbell said it is the largest in- in gunnery exercises. | Wealthy Man Is Indicted for Tax Evasion Largest Case of Kind |n History of Govern- ment Revealed CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 11. — M. L Annenberg, former newsboy who | |amassed a fortune publishing raun horse information, has been in- dicted, with three associates, by the‘ Federal Grand Jury. It is charged that Annenberg/ “wilfully evaded the income tax | law” by failing to pay taxes, plus| interest and penalties on $5,548,000 J District Attorney William J‘ come tax case of the Government | in history. A 50-page indictment listed the amount allegedly evaded tax at $3,250,000, with 50 percent penalties and 6 percent interest. Others indicted are Annenberg'’s son Walter, Arnold Kruse, and Jo- seph Hafner, alias Samuel Gold- farb, whom the Government iden tifies as officials of the Cecelia Company, Annenberg's top holding corporation. , e — BUTTONS AND MAN LONDON, Aug. 11. — A boom in | victor ; presidential | 1938 senatorial |said Tydings had authorized issu- Anti-F ormgn Demonstrations Spread in China Anti-British demonstrators are shown here as they marched with banners and jeered at England in Tsing- tao, North China. Reports from there said the Japanese sponsored drive to exclude all whites from the East was sprea.dinx. and was broadened to include all lorelgneu. I By PRESTON GROVER HOWARD HUGHES | WASHINGTON, Aug. 11, — Just | as Washington is preparing for the ls Io ATIEMPT International conference here early in September on the German exile ! question, there comes a report of RE(ORD FlIGHT what happened to a band of Ameri- can exiles driven abroad by one of our own tragedies—the Civil War. | Of the hundreds of southerners ‘Given Permission for High 1, hnares o versr |the Civil War, most were absorbed AlhtUde Tnp Over A' |into the Latin American communi- 1 H ties to which they emigrated. But lanfic fo Paris |0%mier"sie ia % of ane som:| kmumty of confederate exiles who WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. — The |attempted to found a settlement on Civil Aeronautics Authority reveals ‘h;‘:";z"“ in B:z“;om sl that round-the-world flier Howard | 10Ty OO . Hughes has asked permission w‘B;mIett,, U. ‘s. Consul General in| make a high altitude flight across|®I0 de Janeiro. the Atlantic to Paris. No details of the flier'’s plans are | | BROUGHT DENTISTS TO BRAZIL announced. It is understood that| Villa Americana was founded in Hughes intends to fly the Boemg’me”‘h BSao Paolo district of South~ Stratoliner he purchased several ern Braal, weeks ago for sub stratosphere ex-| ‘“Most of tiiem prospered and lived | | periments. happily,” says Burdett. “The faml« o lies and descendants of this old |confederate breed (mostly Irom Texas and Alabama) have scat- | tered through Brazil, many to Lakel | distinguished roles in the life of‘ the nation. Most of them are Bra- | zilian citizens but a few retain Am- | | erican citizenship. Several dentists {and an outstanding surgeon in Rio| de Janeiro, Dr. Franklin Pyles, are| proud to claim Villa Americana ori- gin, | “To the Villa Americana colo- |nists is ascribed the introduction | into Brazil of dentists and water- | melons, but the colony can be . — Mary- | O - 1 5. Tydinsg, |credited with many less tangible | . AR Rt . T ooavel ontributions to Brazilian prog-| ress.” | ‘purge” of anti-administration cen- L g gressmen last year, has become a m’: ‘?""‘““"." Ex‘l‘;’ have risen | candidate for the 1940 Democratic N, DAYY COBPN homihaton Yet m‘d w the fate of .mothm Baltimore’s Calvert Club, politi- ;’i'v“:;f;nS“I'L‘"‘:v':_;“m“rg“f"fi;”lsz’ S:H cal: group °rg“"‘z:dm‘:)‘:‘g'n“‘::;:‘fit healthiest ~fever-ridden parts of | | Representative David J. Lewis, New | "' “’""_";' Many of the exiles,| | Deal candidate, put the Marylander | ¥ithout adequate tools and unpre- | |in the running with an announce- | pared for jungle Ufe, moved ]"M\l ment the club said bore Tydings' |l “full approval.” Col. ‘?Aplvxn K. Baskette, retired “Santarem colony dropped mw 2 8 ' 8 i obscurity,” says Burdett. “The army officer and club president, were too great. Too delmmmed $o1 give up, the settlers were deci- mated by tropical, disease. The sur-; vivors married into Brazilian fam- southward to Villa Amvn-‘ ance of the “first 10,000” Tyding: for-President stickers, which have | Sppéared tn. theally. llies, and finally all trace of the| colony, as a colony, vanished. BUCYRUS MAN A LITTLE OLD LAI]Y | more than $125,000 annually on the route touching settlements on Ke- nai Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Al- aska Peninsula, Aleutians, Umnak Island and Bristol Bay points. Another member of the Alaska Civilian Rifle Team going to Camp Perry was J. G. Osborne, who left on the steamer Princess Charlotte this morning. the sales of men’s trench coats is due to the “discovery of young men that their girl friends like a uni- form,” says the Wholesale Textile Association. ‘T. G. Paulsen, Bucyrus-Erie rep- resentative, is a guest at the Bar- anof Hotel after several weeks in| the Interior. He came out with Pacific Alaska Airways last night. “I visited Saptarem in May, 1938, | and found little to recall this last stand of the confederacy. There 1sI only one survivor of the original (Continued on Page Two) SOCIAL SECURITY MEASURE SIGNED; ACT BROADENED President Roosevelt Ex- plains What Amend- menfs Will Mean HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 11— President Roosevelt today signed the bill making broad liberalization to the Social Security Act, cutting hundreds of millions of dollars off the tax burden it imposes. The President said: “These | amendments to the Act represent another tremendous step forward, | providing greater security to the people of this country. This is es- pecially true in the case of the Fed- eral old age insuranci is now a converted s survivors, an insurance providing a lifetime family security instead of only an individual old age security to workers in insured occupauons FAIRBANKS AIR BASE ASSURED Sum of $400,000 Is Ear- marked for Project in Army Allofment HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 11.— In the Third Deficiency bill signed by the President is an appropriation for $8,431,000 for the Army and earmarked is $400,000 for the Army Air Base at Fairbanks, Alaska. This base, or emergency field, when completed, is estimated to cost about “000000 -oo to PEM INVESTIGMORS RETURN TOMORROW Dr. A. P. D. Stokes, Department of Agriculture peat expert, and Junior Forester Bob Robinson are returning to Juneau tomorrow morning on the steamer Mount | McKinley after making a peat sur- vey of the Territory for the For- t Service. They came out of the llnlerlor by way of Fairbanks and the Richardson Highway. uicide ) TIE-UP ON COAST NOW THREATENED Waierfronl_E;ployers As- sociation Turns Down Latest Proposals EXISTING CONTRACTS EXPIRE SEPTEMBER 30 Business Rep?ied Already Affected Along Entire West Sections SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 11, ~—The threat of a maritime tieup on the Pacific Coast this fall looms large. The Waterfront Employers As- sociation has flatly rejected the wage increase and hour shortening contract which has been submit- ted to replace the contract, in ef- fect for the past year, and which expires next month. The rejection brought forth a statement from the association that a renewal of the present contract is “in the interest of all concerned, longshoremen, employers and ship~ ping public” and warned that a delay will mean loss of cargoes and less work. A conference of the leaders of the two groups is scheduled to be held tomorrow. Urge Contract Renewal .The Waterfront Employers’ As- sociation urges that the existing contracts which expire September 30, be renewed for another year. The longshoremen ask for in- creased hourly pay, a straight six- hour day with overtime for all work after 3 o'clock in the after- noon and other concessions. The statement from the Employ- ers’ Association declared that coast longshoremen already are paid higher wages than dockworkers anywhere else in the world. They also charge that the long- shoremen now do only half as much work per hour because of deliberate slowdowns and that slowdowns and that longshoremen contracts with repeated work stop- pages, The employers said that the threat of a strike already is hav- ing a serious effect on business and cargoes that ordinarily would be handled through coast ports have been sent to British Columbia, and others are being hauled by rail The longshoremen also demand that penalties for so-called quickie strikes be dropped. More Trouble Looms Further trouble also looms, it is said, as Masters, Mates, Engineers and Stewards want certain changes. As it is now Masters and the other heads of departments must accept men sent to them from the union halls, instead of picking their own help. The trouble is not with the shipping companies but through the contracts the companies must accept from the unions, therefore it is practically a union fight. HUBBS, FISHERY INVESTIGATOR, IS DUE HERE MONDAY Dr. Carl Hubbs, assigned by Sec- retary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to make a study of Alaska fishery conditions with a view to possibly changing regulations for next year, is due to return to Ju- neau Monday from Bristol Bay where he has spent a month on a Bureau of Fisheries patrol vessel. BASEBALL TODAY ‘The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two Major Leagues: National League Philadelphia 2; New York 1. Pittsburgh 2; Chicago 3. New York 9; Philadelphia 5. St. Louis 3; Detroit 4.