The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV, NO. 8184. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ———————— . — e ————— T e PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANTROOPS MOVE TOPOLISHBORDER REMOVAL OF ALL BARS ON IMMIGRATION TO ALASKA PROPOSED;DRAFTING BILL The Interior Secretary said the tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes|legislation will make it possible for| foreigners to immigrate to Alaska | told newsmen today that legisla- { tive experts are drafting a bill to|but not to the United States prop-| exclude Alaska from gquota provis- | er, unless after entering the Ter- jons of the present immigration |ritory they apply for admission to WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Secre- NEGOTIATIONS DEADLOCKED IN COAST TROUBLE Employers, Longshoremen| Exchange Letters on ~ Proposed Confracts | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Aug. 1. —The Waterfront Employers Asso- | ciation and the Longshoremen’s| Union have exchanged letters, but| Most wheat harvested. Prospective crop is 700 millionbushels, com- pared with 930 million law and thus remove bars against | the States under the regular immi- foreign immigration to Alask Sourdoughs Featuring 2 ‘ Alaska Girls Parade Hel_d—on Treasure1 Island-Broadcast Be Made Tonight | 8r ation quotas. | the tons of the communications did | Stars in Suit little toward bringing about a new working contract. Negotiations were broken off last Saturday when representatives of | the two groups could find no basis| | for agreement. | | The Coast faces the threat of an-| | | other maritime strike unless a new | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 17.| § —A blonde beauty from Seward,| Alaska, led the members of the In- | ternational Sourdoughs, other resi-| dents and also former residents of the Far North in the official ob- servance of Alaska-Yukon Day at the Golden Gate Exposition today.| The blonde beauty is Irene Reen- | strom, known as Miss Alaska, and | e is attended by Miss Jane Gor-i don as Miss Fairbanks. Both were | chosen to represent Alaska at the | Fairbanks Ice Carnival last March. ‘The Sourdoughs went on a three-| hour boat trip in San Francisco Bay prior to the parade on Treas-| ure Island, then a reception in Au-| ditorium Hall, followed by sight-| seeing trips around the exposition ! grounds. A dog tam pulled a wheeled sled on which the two girls were seated and the Exposition’s 40-piece band led the parade. Coke Hill, of San Francisco, res’- dent of Alaska for 30 years and former Federal Judge at Valdez and Fairbanks, was chosen to pre- sent the girls at the reception and| introduce them. Canadian and United States flags are everywhere. A special program will be given tonight and broadcast from station KGEI, formerly WSIX, on T ure Island on 9530 kilocycles, 3148 | meters, led by Buck Harris, former newspaperman at Ketchikan, now | manager of the General Electric! station on the island. The br. cast will be from 9:30 to 9:45 o clock tonight. The Misses Reenstrom and Gor- don will be interviewed briefly by Harris during the program. | The Sourdoughs are ‘scheduled to| elect officers tomorrow, attend al banquet and ball tomorrow night| and bus sight-seeing and a tour of the bay area is scheduled for Sat- urday. ———e—— JAPANESE DENY BOMBING OF 2 BRITISH SHIPS Block All Efforfs of Any Claims for Indemnity for Damages SHANGHAI, Aug. 17.—An official Japanese note confirmed today previous oral denials of responsi- bility for the bombing of two Brit- ish merchant vessels in Bayangton. The note also denied that Japan- ese planes had dropped bombs on; a British oil company’s property at Ichang. The Japanese reply to British protest suggested that the vessels caught fire from some mysterious cause. Spokesmen said that the note would block any British claims for indemnity. o DIVORCE CASES Suits for divorce were filed in District Court today by Tyra Eff- ner against Ralph Effner on grounds of incompatability, and Roy A. Allen against Emma Dor- othy Allen on grounds of deser- tion. [Three Tho&gfld Destitut Ann Sheridan Tp's perfectly ridiculous,” gaspeg \nn Sheridan, movie “oomph g}rl n Hollywood, at report a film editor ad been accused of squandering noney on her instead of paying ali- nony. The editor is .ank Dewar, whose former wife, Zelma, in a court affidavit declared he was {“wantonly spending money on Ann Sheridan and other girls.” ALABAMA SECTIONS FLOODED e Being Aided by Red Cross WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — Red Cross headquarters answered an ap- peal today for aid in flood stricken areas of Alabama, by sending three . | additional workers int othe area. The Red Cross already is provid- ing food and shelter for 3,000 per- sons left destitute by the raising | flood waters of Autauta creek and | Yene® the Alabama river. Officials were notified that the southern section of the state was generally flooded, and that contin- ued rises were increasing distress. Five additional Red Cross workers were ordered to stand by to take over duties in the Prattuelle area if conditions become more acute. YOUTH WAIVES EXTRADITION TO ARIZONA (cc Enrollefi)ing Back fo Face Prosecution on Check Charge Larry Hambsch, 25, arrested at the Montana Creek CCC camp for the Sheriff of Navajo County, Ariz., today waived extradition, and will be returned to Arizona to face| prosecution on a charge of issu- ing bogus checks. He will be held in jail here until an Arizona offi- cer arrives to take him in cus- tody. NEEDS A TRAILER DETROIT, Aug. 17—When Out- fielder Fred (Dixie) Walker was sold by the Detroit Tigers to the Brook- lyn Dodgers, it marked the 16th time in 12 years that the veteran player has changed uniforms. The latest transacfion was agreeable to Walk- er because his wife’s home is in New York, contract is signed by September 30 In terda exchange the Em-| ployer’s Association secretary, F. P.| | Foisoe declared that penalty pro- visions are necessary in the new contract because longshoremen par- ticipated in socalled “quickie” strikes {and other job disputes in the past nine months. He said all disputes !should be settled by arbitration in- | stead of by direct action. | Longshore Chief Harry Bridges replied that each case resulted from | an attempt of the association to chisel on the dock worker He charged that the employers collabo- rated with labor spies and strike- breaking agencies to undermine and wreck the unior | Extreme heat ages some fruits and vegetables. Crop [/ conditions generally good. Rice good, truck stuffs fair to good bfoléss&rs wiRwwpope | AtHearing BEFORE SUNDAY Of Bridges DECLARES FISH ey : ol Both Testify Communists Inerparliamentary Union, Do Not Advocate However, Turns Down | Violence Chairman’s Plea (i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 17. OSLO, Norway, Aug. 11. — The| —The Harry Bridges' American delegation to the Inter-|hearing developed into a technical | parliamentary Union Congress has|and philosophical discussion of the washed its collective hands of the | Writings of socialist authors yes- proposal by its chairman, New York terday. Representative Hamilton Fish. | The defense summoned two Stan- Fish visited German Foreign | ford University professors, Harold Minister Von Ribbentrop on his|Chapman Brown and Walter way to Oslo and says that he came| Thompson in an attempt to show away with the impression lh:uithnt the Communist party does not | Europe will have war by next Sun-|advocate the overthrow of the gov- day. ernment by force and violence. The Fish proposed to seek approval| government seeks to deport the {of the Interparliamentary Union of | Australian born CIO leader on a plan for a 30-day truce and ne-|the grounds that he is a Commun- gotiation by Germany, Italy, France | is |and Britain to be followed by im- partial arbitration of the remain- |ing differences. The 23 other Congressmen and four Senators emphasized at meeting before the Congress con- d that Fish's plan was his | 1 | | i Both proiessors denied that they are Communists but both have | made extensive studies of Commun- ist teachings. Brown insisted during five hours of cross examination that he found nothing in the writings of Com- own and that they wanted 10 Part| munict leaders to indicate that they of it. favor violence. He admitted that | Sp i, o2 kg his knowledge covers only theory DROW"ED MA" ::}:):j ;:;t':y.me actual workings of HAS REMTIVE Thompson corroborated Brown's IN MICHIGAN testimony. He said that the claim If the Jack Ross who drowned that Marx or Engels advised small band of Communists to ad- vocate overthrow of the govern- ment of the United States by force recently in the Fortymile River is|anq violence is too ridiculous to the James Joseph Ross who worked | warrant consideration. for the Alaska Juneau Gold Min-| pridges did not attend yester- ing Company last winter (and il|gay's hearings. appears certain he is, for there was i ot no other Ross on Lhe mine’s pay- roll and the drowned man is known to have worked there) his father is being notified of the tragedy. Stewart Jacobson Is e+ 2o = el Charged with Murder | The Marshal's office here today SEATTLE, Aug. 17.—Former Se- | received notification from Major | Sandys-Wunsch of the Royal Can- | attle politician, Stewart Jacobson, has been bound over to thé Su- | adian Mounted Police at Dawson of perior Court on first degree mur- | Ross' drowning. der charges although the body of his supposed victim has not been found. Jacobson is accused of slaying Chester Vaughn of Portland, Ore. | QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 17. — Closing ‘quotation of Alaskas Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 100, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright, 4%, General Motors 46, International Harves- ter 52, Kennecott 34%, New York | Central 14, Northern Pacific 8%, | United States Steel 46%, Pound | $4.68. date for city council, COURTEOUS CRAB CHAPEL HILL, Md, Aug. 17. — Sam Cook, carpenter, ‘wonders if | Neptune has cross-bred Chesapeake | Bay crabs and Chesapeake Bay re- trievers. Preddie Miller, fishing off the dock where Cook lost his glas: DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 13833, rails 27.71, utilities 25.93. before, pulled up a big crab clutch- ing Cook’s lost spectacles in one lcl.«w. i deportation | Jacobson is a former Seattle candi- | in eight feet of water several days| last year. Supplies ex- pected to be ample be- causeof largecarryover. |, Sugar beets good, irrigation crops doing well, but short- age of water threatens in some sections. Grazing ranges Aneed moisture. Grasshopper menace in Eastern Colorado. 'Big Guns of Army ancflriflavy (an't Go fo South America DAYLIGHT BANK ~ ROBBERY STAGED | IN PHILADELPHIA| Employees_A; Lined Up Against Wall-$15,000 Is Bandits" Loot PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Aug. 17 Holdup men lined up nine employ- | ees of the Wyoming Bank and Trust | Company bank against the wall to- | day and escaped with $15,000. The men were armed with re- volvers and sawed-off shotguns. A telephone operator, Mary Bug, | tried to call police. The hold-up men threw her to the floor. They | forced a bank customer to join the others against the wall. | Two of the masked bandits went | behind the cages and scooped up | the money. The bandits then es-| {caped in an old automobile which police said was stolen. e OIL WELLS ' SHUTDOWN, SIX STATES Unpreceder?f;d~ Move Is Made fo Half Collaps- ing Fuel Prices OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Aug. 17—Kansas, New Mexico, Arkan- sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas | have joined in an unprecedented move to halt the collapsing oil prices by a 15-day shutdown on the wells which produce two-thirds)| of the Nation's supply. Eighty-seven thousand wells have been closed in Texas alone. — - Anna Sully Passes Away | SEATTLE, Aug. 17.—Funeral ser- | vices were held yesterday for Anna | Sully, wife of Wally J. Sully, re- | tired businessman of Ketchikan, | Alaska. Mrs. Sully died last Fri- jday of an heart ailment. | | — e - | | The first election returns to be! | | broadeast by radio were those an-| | nouncing the election of President Progress of coffon gener- ally good. Prospective crop 11 to 12 million bales— smaller than average. Price outlook unfavorable be- [ By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — The last-minute legislative jam in the Senate stopped the War and Navy Departments from extending hemispherical defense network down along the coasts of South America. Legislation was proposed to let Latin American republics buy our most modern air and coast defense weapons direct from the army and navy. The law already permits them to buy munitions here from private concerns. But private U.S. concerns don’t manufacture heavy- calibre coast defense weapons nor the speed-firing and sighting de- vices for anti-aircraft operation The only place the Latin Ameri- can countries have been able to buy such equipment is in Europe. They are buying it extensively, Prices are much lower than for American stuff. Only recently Brazil placed an order for $60,000,000 worth of German artillery and other war material. Germany took cotton, cof- fee and other raw products in ex- | change. Brazil is building three destroyers from American steel, but, now that they are about finished, she can't buy U. S. guns for them although the U. 8. navy has large stocks. The State Department doesn’t like the idea of European nations, nota- bly Germany and TItaly, supplying South American nations. The De- partment thinks it is likely to win the Latin Americans away from the U. S. orbit, AMMUNITION MUST FIT The army and navy have an equal interest in the thing. In case of a world war, the U. 8. and the other American republics likely would be shoulder to shoulder in defense of this hemisphere, If the republics to the south were equipped with Euro- pean weapons they could buy no fresh supplies of ammunition dur- ing the war. And nothing made by the U. S. would fit. The army and navy hoped—and expected — that orders for anti- aircraft and coast defense weap- ons would come from a number of South American nations. Although the bill permitted them also to buy battleships or smaller craft, the navy people don’t expect they will .The navy does not look for much hemispherical defense from the Latin American navies. One modern battleship and a few heavy cruisers could put all the South American navies to rout. But of special importance to the navy are bases and safe harbors along the American coast. In a war these bases would be of tre- mendous importance., Rio de Ja- neiro, for instance, would need anti-aircraft weapons to shoot away raiding bombers. It would need coast defense weapons to protect the docks and war stores for the fighting forces. Altogether six American republics have indicated they would like U. 8. weapons. Sumner Welles, under- secretary of state, has told House and Senate foreign relations com- mittees that all the Latin Ameri- Harding in 1920, (Connhueu on Pn;e Four) our | It Looks Like a Fair Year for the Farmer Pasturage damaged and some shallow-root crops destroyed by drought. Fall tree fruits not seriously affected. Conditions se- rious in some sections. umper obacco Crop conditions and prospects were generally good on August 1—despite the severe drought in the northeastern states and drought canditions in the plains from North Dakota to Texas. The map, based on unofficial estimates, shows the general situation. (Great Britain ToExperience New Pressure Threat Made_by Japanese to Force Compliance to Demands SHANGHAI, Aug. 17.—A Japa-| nese spokesman confirms reports that the Japanese army intends to use Shanghai as the next point for applying pressure on the Brit- ish to cooperate in the campaign against China. . The spokesman said that resi- dents of the International Settle- ment and the French concession at Shanghai have nothing to fear for the time being and that the future of the concessions will de- pend on what he termed other de- | velopments in the Far East. e e TRADING DULL ON EXCHANGE Less than Half Million Shares Involved in Transactions NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—The Stock Market closed fractionally lower to- day after one of the dullest sessions in weeks. Volume was less than half a million shares. There was not apparent desire on | holdings. The curb market closed fraction- ally lower today after a dull session. No section of the curb showed eith- er activity or strength. However, there was n oheavy selling, curb traders appearing to cut their pat- tern conforming to the model of the stock exchange. Foreign bonds were under mild pressure, but held their losses to fractions. The sell- ing offered no clue to the market relief about the crisis abroad. Domestic issues also were dull— losses were small, but general. Striking Ferry Men Relent for One Day SEATTLE, Aug. 17. — Striking ferry boat workers put pleasure be- fore business yesterday. The men lifted their strike temporarily to take delegates of the Knights of| Columbus convention on a circle | tour of Puget Sound. The ferry boat employees have been striking for many days now against the Black Ball Lines which control practically all of the ferry traffic in the sound area. About 10,000 commuters are left either without or with very little service between sound ports. the part of investors to get rid of | TRENCHES THROWN UP BY TROOPS Great Advaly Reported Progressing Behind 18-Foot Blinds GLEIWITZ, Germany, Aug. 17.—~German troops, moving in the upper Silesian region, “dug in” today within 300 feet of Poland's border. Part of the border section was closed yesterday. German engineering troops speeded up work on a well de- veloped trench system from behind blinds 18 feet high in the region of the village of Schoenwald and for a distance of six miles south of here. The grinding of concrete mixers, chugging of diesel en- gines and cars carrying sup- plies is plainly heard here. DEMOCRATIC PARTY MUST BE LIBERAL Solicifor General Jackson Gives His Views fo Leaders SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 17. — Solicitor General Jackson said to- day that a liberal Democratic party must carry on the Roosevelt poli- cies in 1940. Jackson said Tllinois Democratic |leaders fear that conservatives | within the party hope to adopt a middle of the road course next year. |Said he: “A middle of the road | driver, as everyone knows, simply | Lolds up traffic going in both di- rections, In this way some men hope to eliminate the Roosevelt | philosophy from the 1940 campaign. The answer of the rank and file Democrats to this move has been a widespread demand that Presi- dent Roosevelt himself accept an- other term. They know that our Party will hold power only while |t is faithful to a leadership that faces the moral, social and econom- ic issues of its times. FRITZ KUHN TESTIFYING ABOUTBUND [Leader Claims Attorney General Murphy Ad- dressed Meeting WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—Fritz | Kuhn, leader of the German Ameri- |can Bund, told the Dies Investigat- ing Committee today that present Attorney General Frank Murphy ad- dressed the Bund at a meeting in Detroit in 1936. Kuhn made the remark voluntarily at the conclusion of the morning session on un-American activities, He said Murphy talked about Ger- man citizens but did not praise the Bund. Kuhn at one point during ques- tioning grabbed up his brief case as if to walk out of the hearing after the committee refused to let him have a lawyer, *Soviet Air Fleets Are in Maneuvers MOSCOW, Aug. 17.—The Soviet Pacific air fleet is reported to be engaged in huge war maneuvers oyer the Sea of Japan off Viadi- vostock. Other air fleets were mak- ing similar moves at Moscow, Len= ingrad and other cities for the So- viet's national aviation day cele- bration on Friday.