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THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE —— == VOL. LIV., NO. 8182. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OLISH PEAK DAY PASSES WITH NO W Fish Committee To Probe Japanese ROOSEVELT PROCLAIMS Motorcylists At Whitehorse, New York Bound WHITEHO 15—C. C. “Slim” Wil ck Logan, motor cyling from Frairbunks to the World's Fair at New York City, arrived here Sunday, rested over Monday and plan to start off again today Carcrossward. MAGNUSON SEES PEACE IN HIGHWAY Alaska Road Would Help Safeguard Security Is View Expressed COOPERATION HELD EXAMPLE T0 EUROPE Hope fo Start Building Af- ter Joint Meeting at Ottawa, December SEATTLE, Aug. 15.—Congressman Warren G. Magnuson told The Washingtonians, a Seattle club, to- day that the Alaska International Highway would do much to safe- guard the peace and security of the continent. He said: “What a great example that would be for the United States and Canada to set before the rest of the world. Europe’s disputes are all based on important territories and frontiers, yet we have possibly the greatst undeveloped frontier in the world. I should think it would make some of these European pow- ers ashamed of themselves if we— Canada and the United States— should develop it by peacefully sit- ting around a conference table.” He declared a “life line” Alaska- ward would benefit the Navy as much as money spent on the most powerful cruiser. Magnuson said the United States and Canadian highway commissions | CAMPOBELLO, ISLAND, New Brunswick, Aug. 15. — American President Franklin D. Roosevelt said he will advance Thanksgiving | day one week, proclaiming it to be | on Thursday, November 23, instead of Thursday, November 30. The Pr ident of the United States has shat- tered another tradition. | President Roosevelt said the peo- ‘nh' have been complaining there is | too long an interval between Labor | | Day and Thanksgiving day and too short a period between Thanksgiv- ing day and Christmas. President Roosevelt recalled that the final Thursday in November was set definitely as the holiday date only after the Civil War. Previously the day was celebrated variously, | sometim n October. The President also said that in | 1940 hg will set the second Thursday | in November for Thanksgiving Day ROAR GO! NEW YORK, Aug. 15—The an- nouncement of the change of "the date to observe Thanksgiving Day created a furore, especially to foot- ballers who foresee a mixup of sched- ules. Many “big” games must either shift dates or be played in compara- tive privacy. NO TURKEYS PROVIDENCE, R. I, Aug. 15. — Turkey raisers protest to the change in the date of Thanksgiving Day They assert that the crop will not be ready any earlier. Gf(fsiilfimri WILL EXPAND ALASKA WORK Bill Passes fo Permit of | Strategic Mineral Investigations Broad expansion of U. S. Geologi- | | nounced today by Dr. Phillip 8.| Smith, Chief Alaska Geologist with | that department. ward and Interior. In Juneau today, Dr. Smith eon- | ferred with Dr. John Reed, survey | _ CONTROL MAY U. 5. WOMAN THANKSGIVINGDAYFOR BE GIVEN T0 CITIZEN IS NOVEMBER 23, NOT 30 LEGISLATURE MANHANDLED Traps, Season Change, Herring Fishing Slat- ed for Scrutiny JUNEAU HEARINGS SET SEPT. 11, 12 House Committee to Visit Territory on Coast Guard Cutter WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Japan- ese competition with the American fishing industry off the coast of Al- aska will be investigated by the House committee which sails Sun- day for the Territory to investigate its fisheries. Committee sources said Alaskan fishermen have complained Japan- ese boats had invaded the waters which Alaskans thought should be reserved for their exclusive use. The committee also will investi- gate the use of traps for taking salmon ,the advisability of changing the salmon season, the effect of her- ring fishing on salmon fisheries and whether traps set by the large can- | neries are encroaching on the rights | of individual fishermen. To Legislature? The committee also will hear tes- timony on whether the control of Alaska’s resources should be turned over to the Alaska Legislature in-| stead of handled by Congress as at present. The committee plans a wide swing around the Gulf of Alaska. Hear- ings are scheduled at Cordova, An- chorage, Kodiak, Sitka, Juneau, Pet- ersburg, Wrangell, Craig and Ket- chikarz. Upon returning to the States fur- ther hearings will be held at Seattle and San Francisco in addition. The Committee Chairman Schuyler Otis Bland of Virginia and subcommittee members | Representatives Ambrose J. Kennedy by the American Consulate and cal Survey work in Alaska was an-|0f Maryland, Mon C. Wallgren of | written in Japanese Washington, Frank W. Boykin of Alabama, George N. Seger of New | Jersey, James C. Oliver of Maine| japanese ordered her to dump her ! Dr. Smith is a passenger aboard and Alaska Delegate Anthony J.|vegetables. This she was about to| the Aleutian, going to the West-|Dimond will sail from Seattle on do when she noticed a Chinese in| the Coast Guard catter Ingham. Their itinerary is as follows: August 22—Leave Ketchikan. Given Slapm by Japan- ese Sentry-Nippon Of- ficial Apologizes ORDERED T0 SHED; DUMP VEGETABLES Turns Back on Stripping Chinese — Makes Soldier Angry TIENTSIN, Aug. 15—Mrs. F. M Richard, American widow, re- ported today she had been subject- ed to an “unprovoked” slapping at the hands of a Japanese guard | when she sought to enter the blockaded French concession yes- | terday Japanese Vice Consul, N. Nishida. visited the American Consulate in an effort to adjust the matter and it is understood the Consulate is dissatisfied with the explanation | |and has forwarded a report to| | Washington. After the incident, Mrs. Richard telephoned the American Consu- late, which in turn called Nishida, who went to the barricade and apologized to her. He offered further to take her home in his car, but she declined Incident Explained | A native of San Francisco, who has spent 34 years in China, Mrs, | Richard said the incident occurred as she appeared at the barricade | with vegetables to be used in her | small canning business within the concession, but the Japanese des- ignated the vegetables as fruit, which is prohibited goods in the blockaded . She was detained an hour, she said, while Japanese searched the room in which she operated her | | canning plant as a supplement to }hzr income as a teacher of English. | | Sentry Is Rough UNCLE § UNITED EXPLAINS ., Raw cotton $ 52,850,000 Petroleum, Gasoline, Lubricants $49,659,000 Mitchell field, Long Island, when this 30th anniversary of military aviation. marked the 30th year sinee the U. S. STATES ACTION AGAINST JAPAN: BEATTY FULL MEANING Flights by some 2,000 ar JAPAN SOLD TO UNITED STATES: | Raw silk ' $83,651,000 An account of the incident fol- lows that the Japanese sentry ig-| nored her identification card issued | Iron, steel and other metals $ 66,038,000 Machinery, including automobiles and planes $49,019,000 One Japanese ordered her (o] shed her clothing while another Foods (crabmeat, tea, etc.) $10,405,000 ] Chinaware, dishes, etc. $ 3,714,000 Miscellaneous $22,054,000 | front of her removing his trousers while being searched. | l TOTAL _ $239,620,000 | The Japanese sentry apparently Miscellaneous $14,362,000 TOTAL _ $126820000] | Here's what U. S.-Japan trade meant in 1938, when Japan was Uncle army purchased its first milif August 27 — Arrive Cordova Via pecame angry when Mrs. Richard | Wrangell, Petersburg, Taku Inlet tyrned her back on the Chinese | and Juneau. | and started to dump the vegetables | lin a place other than that desig-| geologist who flew here last night from Hirst. Dr. Smith brought the information here that on the last day of the Congressional session,| August 27 and 28—searings. | Sam’s third best customer. By MORGAN M. BEATTY the “war materials stack pile bill” will meet in Ottawa in December. Was passed. “As a result of that meeting we hope | Under this bill, as it finally pass-| to sell the idea completely and in a €d. $10,000,000 a year will be ap- short time thereafter get the high- |Propriated for four years for the way underway.” procurement by the War Depart- | L e ment of certain strategic minerals | years. tamd other war materials. The ap- The following are scores of games| The Geologicical Survey will be played this afternoon in the lWOigiven $150,000 a year of this sum Major Leagues: for the investigation of strategic National League mineral deposits in America. Philadelphia 4; Boston 3. Bureau of Mines will be given $350,- Brooklyn 8; New York 5. 000 a year, with the purpose not American League | clearly known, but believedly for Washington 2; New York 3. | operation - an‘d." development ' of R il mines. CORINNE JENNE ‘ Strategic mineral survey in Al- aska will be concentrated firs ton tin, in the vicinity of Cape York on Seward Peninsula, on nickel in RRI OME | Southeast Alaska, and on chromite, | Also, antimony will come under the £ Ffi | survey. g "4~ pleted with mapping work in the lc]::lu:llix:en“emmnawrd thePrm";Chichagm' area, and far enough SS. . {north of Chichagof to be in the Miss Je e ta;entedMYlilougfisl'r;nickel area in the vicinity of Ya- graduated in June from : i Sd °t;3kobi Island, will “immediately” con- lege then took a posf -grn‘;a' |centrate survey work for the rest course at the University of Cali~iof the season on nickel. He ex- fornia at Berkeley. | pects to return to the island tomor- it SRS | row. MRS. SHEELOR HOME ~J. B. Mertie, Jr, now surveying | tin deposits at Cape York, will con- Mrs. Edith Sheelor returned 10! tinye his work unds - Juneau aboard the North Sea after | B e 24 | year, but not for the following three }proprmtion has been made for this| The | Fish on Mountain? August 29—Arrive Anchorage via Seward for trip to Mount McKinley National Park. September 1 — Return Anchorage for hearings September 2. September 3—Auto trip to Mata- nuska. September 5—Arrive Kodiak via Seward. September 6 and 7—Hearings. September 9—Arrive Sitka. September 9 and 10—Hearings. Hearings at Juneau September 11—Arrive Juneau. September 11 and 12—Hearings. September 13—Arrive Petersbuig for hearings September 13 and 14. September 14 — Arrive Wrangell for hearings September 15 and 16. September 17 — Arrive Craig for one-day hearing. September 18—Arrive Ketchikan via Metlakatla. September 19 and 20—Hearings at Ketchikan. September 23—Return Seattle. Hearings at Seattle ar scheduled September 25 and at San Francisco | | to be back in Washington by Octo- ber 3. ——---- AWP ANNAPOLIS, Md.—The “AWP Project” sign on a construction job here mystified residents familiar wtih PWA and WPA work. The explanation: A. W. Phillips, con- a vacation trip to the States. (Continuea rrom Page One) September 28. The committee plans | WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — The abrogation of the.Japanese-Ame nated by the sentry, and the slap- ping followed. CONGRESSIONAL JITTERS ARE BEING EXPERIENCED: TROUBLE FACED BACK HOME By PRESTON GROVER |opening. Any door-to-door and WASHINGTON, Apg. 15.—These | ionic_ to-picnic visiting must be are the days of the great CONgres- | gone this summer. Next year they sional jitters. Brave Senators Who!gin pe tied up in Washington never have winced under the €X-|gpie the enemy is loose at home. change of oratorical punches on mu[ That situation really has the Senate floor dread what they Willly, qqing up in the neck of whole find at home when they begin meas- | o) sters of members. Two-thirds of uring the support they will have; iy genate can always laugh at the next year. |other third which comes up for Some 435 House members return election. They can laugh, but usu- to the same situation. ‘ully don’t. They know how it feels The reason for the worrying is to come up to the firing line and |this: While there are two sum-| have to bid again for the old job. mers between now and the 1940, elections, there is only one sum- ASHURST AGITATED | mer between now and the next| What they do chuckle at is the | primary, And that summer is the agitation of those members who present one. inever are in much danger and yet A few members of Congress live have the finest spells of pre-election in states where the primary comes torment. Senator Ashurst of Ari- late next year, so they will haic zona is a sample. Outwardly he al- | such tractor, adopted his initials as aan opportunity to put up a casc (ways is bubbling. But already his trademark, after the 1940 session of Congress. | (Continued on Page Seven) | can trade treaty of 1911 convinces | knowing observers that the Ameri- |can State Department is trying to kill 10 birds with one stone. Whether Mr. Hull's note accom- plishes its purposes can't be known, of course, for some time. But it is generally agreed that these are his targets: i : 1. To thereby position keep Japan guessing and strengthen the American in the Far East. Nobody, least of all Japan, can guess what attitude the United States will take toward an embargo against Japan at the end of the six months period required before the treaty is re- pealed. Mr. Hull has long tried to keep other nations guessing about American policy, because it's al- ways an advantage in internation- al poker to keep the other players in the dark about your hand. 2. To observe strictly interna- tional law and thereby accent, by contrast, the inference that Japan is among those outlaw aggressor nations the |often condemned in recent years. Japan’s aggression in China, for in- | stance, is condemned as a violation of the nine-power treaty guaran- teeing the integrity of China. 3. By using the word “abrogate,” land by adopting a mild tone, to take a step from which it will always be possible to recede with- out losing prestige, or without in- | viting Japan officially to charge that we are using bluff and unfair economic pressure. Abrogation, in | (Continued on Page Two) United States has so| AM HOLDS ‘OPEN HOUSE'—Crowds flocked to the U. S. army airport at Douglas bomber was put on exhibit as part of the nation’s 'my planes throughout the country tary plane.( Note the children, JAPANESE FISHING IN BRISTOL BAY | STLL DANGEROUS Friele Urges Establishment of American Rights fo Oflshoire Fishing Declaring that the question of Japanese fishing in Bristol Bay is no closed issue, H. B. Freile, presi- dent of the Nakat Packing Com- pany, who arrived in Juneau this forenoon from the Nakat cannery at Waterfall, urged again the pas- | sage of the bill before Congress | that would claim for the United States water in Bristol Bay of less than 100 fathoms in an attempt to prevent foreign fishing off the coast of Alaska. ; “Because little has been said | about Japanese fishing this year, we have a tendency to allow our-| selves to be lulled to sleep on the | question, when, as a matter of| fact, it has assumed more seri- ous proportions than ever before,” | Mr. Friele said today. ! The cancellation by the United States of its trade agreement with Japan threatens to have a serious effect in Bristol Bay. Without the trade agreement to observe, the Japanese may feel now that there is nothing to keep them from fish- ing in deep waters off the Alaska coast.” It was Mr. Friele who first flew over Japanese fishing vessels in Bristol Bay in 1837 and brought back pictures of foreign operations as first conclusive proof of Jap- anese activities off the coast of Al- aska. To study the habits of salmon,\: conditions of water, tides, tem- erature, two large seine boats un- | der charter to the Bureau of Fish- |eries have been fishing in Bristol Bay this summer and while so en- | gaged are laying a scientific claim to the offshore fisheries for the United States. This is to offset any | claim the Japanese may have made to their rights to offshore fishing | because of the study their fisher-| men, scientific and commercial, had | made, Mr, Friele explained. Mr. Friele flew to Juneau this | morning with Nick Bez, president | of the Peril Straits Packing Com- pany, and A. P. Wolfe, Hood Bay canneryman, aboard Herb Mun-| ter’s plane. After a poor season at the West- ward and a slow season in South- east Alaska, fish are beginning to |come in throughout southeast dis- tricts and indications are that there (Conunued u(‘)n ‘i’njxe ‘Two) i Incursion HITLER DOES NOT STRIKE AS FORECAST | Relatively Calm on Threat- ened Front—Rumors Are Circulated NEGOTIATIONS OVER DANZIG ARE REPORTED Prof. Carl Bruckhardt Is- sues Communique—Not Going fo London BERLIN, Aug. 15. — Germany's | war game mobilization was sched- uled to reach peak strength of two million men today, but there ap- peared to be little likelihood that August 15 would be “Der Tag Day” the day for Hitier to strike. The Nazi press and radio were relatively calm and gave no clue to the truth behind various rumors concerning the Danzig dispute with Poland. These rumors ineluded a report that Danzig League of Nations Commissioner Burckhardt was try- ing to arrange negotiation of the dispute before the deadline set by Hitler and another said that Burck- hardt had conferred with Free City President Greiser. Burckhardt Talking According to advices received here, Prof. Carl Burckhardt, High Commissioner of the League of Na- tions at Danzig, has issued a com- munique stating he has had a “short conversation about internal Danzig questions” and while in Germany discussed various proposals with the League of Nations General Secre- tary. Burckhardt denies that he is go- ing to London but has had talks with Albert Forster, Danzig Nazi leader, and Arthur Greiser, Presi- dent of the Danzig Senate and Pol- ish High Commissioner Gen. Mar- ian Chodacki. POPE OFFERS SERVICES PARIS, Aug. 15—A report that Pope Pius offered his services as a mediator in the Danzig dispute is published today by a Paris news- paper, The newspaper described the Pope as being greatly alarmed over the situation, Other sources suggested that Premier Mussolini himself would request the Pope's aid in or- der to claim the credit as peace- maker in case of success. Liner Beals Death;Prince Roberf Wins | | | 'Ship Races Info Prince Rupert with Man Seriously 1l KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 15.— ‘The palatial Canadian National liner Prince Robert arriving here last night with 315 tourists aboard, brought word of a race against death up the Canadian coast when Preston Leslie, of Los Angeles, California State Inheritance Tax Appraiser, became seriously ill with an attack of pneumonia. . The Prince Robert sped at 23 and 24 knots an hour and reached Prince Rupert at 10:30 o'clock Sunday night instead of 7 o'clock Monday morn- ing. Leslie was removed from the liner and taken to a Prince Rupert hos- pital, accompanied by his son Harry. Leslie is not expected to recover,

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