The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8185. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDA Y, AUGUST 18, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS phvssmemvan e———— PREDICTS SHIPPING TIEUP SEPTEMBER 30 TESTIFIES BUND CAMP VERY LEWD Girl Reveals Practices— | Gives Evidence on New Angles WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Helen Vooros, 19, today told the Dies com- mittee investigating un-American activities, there was great “immor- ality” at the German American | Bund camp on Long Island, New | York. | The comely girl said she quit the Bund because the leaders “would not | let me alone.” The plump, dark-haired Bund youth leader added, almost in an inau-| dible tone: “They planned to at- tack me.” Continuing she said:| “The immorality of the entire movement appalled me.” | Representative Joe Starnes put a startling question to the girl and she quickly replied: “The whole thing disgusted me on account of the immorality and the lewd sug- gestions made.” | ville office, won the Democratic [ campaign on attacking the CI( Young Brown, his op; Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson of Kentucky, pic@urcd in hi 10, for whose United Mine Worl Wins Kentucky Primary is Louis: Gubernatorial primary, basing hig kers John ponent, is an attorney, The girl also testified that the Bund leaders attempted to inculcate the campers with the idea that Nazi principles were far superior | to “American institutions and ideals and that “national Socialism is the | only thing that could save us.” “We Germans” The girl stated she asked the Bund leaders what “we were going to be saved from and they replied: “We Germans are not getting consider- | ation in this country at this time.” The 19-year-old Brooklyn girl told how she once carried a secret com- munication from a German Ameri- can Bund leader to a German poli- tical official. Miss Vorros saitl that she was trusted with the mystery letter a moment before sailing on a Bund financed trip to Germany to SqualusIs Being Towed Shore Wardi Navy History Near Completion : PORTSMOTH, N. H, Aug. 18— learn Nazi propaganda methods. frhe 98 daed mien who cep \v-!h-! The former leader of the Bund girls in the sunken submarine, Squa- unit said that she delivered the let- ter at sea to a Nazi political agent in the crew of the ship Hamburg.' Anything Went Miss Vooros also testified that lus, are almost “home” today with | successful completion of the xecoud‘ lifting in the towing operations. | The stricken sub thus was| | the boys’ and girls’ section at the ~ | Siegfried, Long Island ‘camp, were ©f the most unusual submarine | only about 30 feet apart and “this|iourneys in United States Naval history journey which has car- caused quite a bit of trouble as the parents complained their girls were too close to the boys' quarters. Asked by Starnes whether Theo- dore Dinkelacker, whom she iden- ried her, hoisted by huge pontoons, pulled along by puffing tugs, al- most six miles beneath the surface of the sea. | tified as the leader of the Bund's youth movement had at any time done anything to stop “immoralit; WRECK VICTIMS INCREASED T0 24 | Hoboes Being—Rounded Up —Questioned on Alleg- ed Sabotage Claim RENO, Nev., Aug. 18.—The toll of the wreck of the Southern Pa- cific streamliner City of San Fran- cisco has increased to 24 with the death of a negro waiter, George Stansell. Several others injured when the| luxurious train hurtled off the tracks in a Humboldt River canyon last Saturday night, are still in a| serious condition at a Reno hos-| (Continuca on Page Four) S — DENIES HE ADDRESSED BUND MEET Atiornel General Murphy Refutes Statement Made by Kuhn o WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Attor- Meanwhile, throughout the West- ney General Frank Murphy denies ern States, officers continued ques- that he had ever addressed a meet- tioning transient hoboes in the| ing of the German American Bund. search for the saboteurs that the Murphy issued the statement fol- | Southern Pacific Company insists lowing a charge by the German caused the wreck. The railroad of- American Bund leader Fritz Kuhn | fers $5,000 reward for the arrest of who testified that he had heard |the wreckers. Murphy address a group of Bund| The union of dining car workers members in 1936. The incident was asked that the G-Men investigate supposed to have taken place in|charges that inadequate track main- Detroit. | tenance caused the wreck. Said Mr. Murphy: “As far as I| Railroad attorneys indicated that can remember I have never ad- the Southern Pacific would not be dressed a bund meeting as such. At legally responsible for damages to any of several of these meetings | the injured persons or relatives of there may have been bund members the dead if the wreck is found due present. I have always atbendc;l‘ln sabotage. German meetings because of my RN % TR B In 1936 Murphy was Governor of MAKES (HARGES Michigan. Kuhn said that Murphy confined his remarks to the general Kuhn was summoned as the Dies | Chaim Weighman, speaking before committee began an investigation|the Zionist Congress, said the Brit- of Fascist movements in the Unti- ish Colonial Secretary has broken tions from Germany and protest-|MacDonald had assured him that ed that the organization has been the Jews never would be given a persecuted since 1932. minority status in Palestine. high regard for the German people subject of Germans in America and _— ed States. He denied that the bund | faith with the Jews in Palestine. as a whole.” said nothing in praise of the Bund.| GENEVA, Aug. 18—Zionist leader had received any funds roinstruc- He stated that Secretary Malcolm Will Delay Naming of Fish Chief Remarkable Feat in U. 5. Secretary Ickes Wanls| Thorough Report Be- fore Appointment WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes indicated today that the findings of the Congressional Committee and his own special mission to study Alaskan fisheries problems would be important in his selection of a brought amost to the end of Unr}Burmu of Fisheries head to succeed | Frank Bell, resigned several months ago. Secretary Ickes said he will delay for two or three months the naming of a Bureau of Fisheries Commis- sioner while obtaining a “thorough knowledge of all fishing problems. Morg&lfial In Sweden U.S. Secreffiof Treasury Is Going fo Thank Finland STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 18. States Treasury, Henry Morgen- thau Jr, has arrived in Stockbolm with his family on his European vacation trip. Morgenthau said he planned to stop in Finland amd thank the country’s officials for their prompt payments of thetmpr debt Lo the United States. Finland is the only country | which has met its obligations to | the United States. SOURDOUGHS ELECT HEADS Lee B. Loomis fs Chosen President-Lulu Fair- banks Again in OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. i8.—Lee B. Loomis, of Portland, Oregon, was today elected President of the In- ternational Sourdoughs and Yakima, Washington, was chosen for the con- vention next year. Henry McAuley, of Vancouv C., was named First Vice-President | C. O. Silverstein, of Oakland, Se | ond Vice-President, and Lulu Fair- banks, of Seattle, re-elected Secre- tary Treasurer, ——The Secretary of the Umled} JAPANESE DEMANDS ~ REJECTED Great Britain Turns Down | Nippon Proposal, Tokyo Meet LONDON, England, Aug. 18.— Great Britain today rejected Jap- aese demands that economic ques- tions be included in the discussions now going on in Tokyo on the Tien- | stin affair. | In the dispute between the two powers, official circles said that | British Ambassador Sir Robert Crai- | gie has informed the Japanese gov- ernment of the decision, insisting that any discussion of economic | questions must be referred to all signatories of the Nine-Power Wash- ington treaty and other relevant treaties NEW DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS ARISE IN EUROPE LAND {Tension Slackens in Dan-| zig Situation-Breaks Ouf New Issue | ciated Press) { The which has marked | Europe’s “war nerves’ during the! past two weeks slackened today as German turned her immediate ater tention from the Danzig question [to build her political fences in| P s ¥ Here are the five men who make the group. Left to right, seated, a Harry N. Routzohn, A BRITISH PATR Eastern Europe A new feeling of optimism grew| in Great Britain, although Ger-| many's army stands ready to en- force Nazi demands on Poland at a moment’s notice It is believed in informed circl | that delicate diplomatic proolems | | have shifted German attention | from the Danzig problem for the| time being. New problems which | have arisen revolve, it is said,| around Stefan Eskay, Hungarian | Foreign Minister, and his atlitude and that of Hungary in the event of a European conflict. Germany is believed to have asked Eskay if she could use the Carpatho-Ukraine, recenlly &n- nexed |off place for hostilities with Po- land. On the question of whetner Hungary would be sympathetically “peutral” in policing the Balkans during the time of tension, the iAus Deutschland, says tLat Ge: many and Hungary “see eye | eye.” This is interpreted in some quar- ters to mean that Germany can count on Hungary’s extremely benevolent neutrality. Budapest’s Foreign Office spokes- man, however, characterized such statements as “entirely untrue.” The Foreign Office at the same time announced that Count Eskay flew from Munich to Rome, with the express purpose of conferring at some time with Mussolini on Iralian-Hungarian relations. B e (10 WITHDRAWS STRIKE THREAT AT ARMOUR (0. CHICAGO, 111, Aug. 18 —Armour Packing Company officials assert that the CIO has withdrawn its | threats to strike unless the union is granted a nation-wide bargain- |ing contract. Armour President Cabell said that he received a letter from CIO re- moving the strike threat. How- ever, the nationwide bargaining contract is still highly desired by the CIO and the dispute has not been completely settled. SLAP FOR SLAP WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — Jap- anese authorities promised today to punish the fentry who slapped an v, B | American woman from San Fran-| sco recently. The incident oc- | curred at Tientsin. Japan offi- | cials made the promise in a second message of regret received recently by the State Department. CHINA SECTION; 2 GUNBOATS ACTIVE Bombing In ed-Axis Alliance Held Up HONGKONG, Aug. 18, The British gunboats, Cicado and Moth ministration of the National Labor Relations Act. Rep. MERICAN "DREYFUS CASE” STILL HANGS FIRE: SHADOW REMAINS OVER 0. M. CARTER cfiant Answer- | up the House of Represe! re Rep. Arthur M, Healy, \A, Halleck, Indiana Republiaan. By PRESTON GROVER gress has passed up one of its last opportunities to determine whether the army’s “Dreyfus case” will go | into history without a conclusive in- | vestigation. The “Dreyfus case” is that of Oberlin M. Carter, one-time cap- tain of engineers, top-ranking man in his class at West Point. In pre- Spanish War days he was engineer of a harbor improvement project |at Savannah, Ga. out of which grew a scandal and a court mar- tial that sent him to imprisonment in Leavenworth. He was tried in 1898. Scarcely a |today proceeded around both sides|year has passed since that he has | of Kowloon Peninsula to watch Jap-|not pressed a case in court, or, | anese activities in mopping up Chin-|more recently, in Congress to have {ese territory still held by the Jap-|that stain removed from his rec- |anese from direct communications| ,rq It never has been. The rush Will Investigate NLRB Administration . ntatives committee which will investigate ad- Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, heads Massachusetts Democrat; Rep. Smith and Rep. Abe Murdock, Utah Democrat. and Rep. Charles WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, —- Con- by Hungary, as a jumping| well informed commentary, Dienst| to| | with Hongkong and destroying the value of British interests there. In Shanghai Japanese officials confirmed previous details of re- sponsibility for the bombing of two gBrm.sh ships in the Yangtze river lon August 6. The Japanese an- swered British protests with the statement that the ships the war zone at their own risk. The Japanese inner cabinet post- poned a meeting that was to con- |sider Japan’s joining the Rome- Berlin axis in a political and mili- tary alliance. | Government leaders appeared to ‘believe that Japan should be in- creasingly cautious about allying herself with the European powers just before a possible war outbreak. — e — Youthful Bandit Is Slain; Another Is Under Arrest SPOKANE, Wasl., Aue. 18 youthful bandit was siain and another was arrested following a |gun battle in which two policemen were injured. The shooting foliowed a series of | holdups staged by the men. Th | dead bandit was identified as Ro- |bert Attkins and his companion as Howard Lyman Policemen Don Tetdal and Robert | A gional Director Van Bittner re-|Johnson were struck by bulletsput|Savannah b not seriously injired. - e BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games |played this afternoon in the two | Major Leagues: National League Brooklyn 3; Boston 4, fourteen in- nings. | New York 2; Philadelphia St. Louis 3; Pittsburgh 0. American League Philadelphia 0; New oYrk 5. Boston 6; Washington 2, | entered | of the final hours of Congress made it impossible to take up the bill | which, year after year, has been introduced to clear Carter’s rec-| ord. It will be investigated another! | summer and hearings will be held | ! again, perhaps next winter. But meantime, Carter is getting older —he’s in his eighties. The story really begins at West | Point. Carter was No. 1 in his class and set a record for scholarship |and attainment which his friends | say surpassed that of Robert E. Lee. Second in the class under Car- ter was George Goethals, who later rose to fame as the builder of the Panama Canal. HARNESSED THE TIDES They were always friends and, to the last, General Goethals never| questioned Carter's integrity. But| others did. Carter and others have testified that army associates, jeal- ous, of his pre-eminence as an en- gineer, set out to ruin him. | Although only a captain he was| |put in charge of the huge works| at Savannah. He devised a plan for laying artificial dykes through which the tides would course and| | wash the harbor deep enough for | heavy traffic. He was commended at home and decorated abroad. Ultimately he turned over the| project to other officers and was| given the distinguished honor of| |appointment as U. S military at- | tache with the embassy at London | He returned from there with his name under a cloudy, for officers at had charged him with conspiring with his wealthy fa- ther-in-law and with contractors | to defraud the government of large sums of money. They alleged that, while engi- neer at Savannah, he had approved {payments to contractors for in-| |ferior rock and brush mattresses | when superior material had been specified. The contractors had al- |ready created a bad atmosphere in | Savannah by assertedlw chiseling on contracts for the immense quanti- ties of bound brush cut from the countryside for the harbor work. ’And Carter himself, financed by his { | (Continued on page Six) | dered Minnesota — INVESTIGATOR SAYS BRIDGES RECORD CLEAN Paid fo Trail CI0 Leader- But No Evidence, Is Capfain’s Testimony SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 18.— Two prominent Pacific Coast ship- ping officials were mentioned yes- terday as financing an extensive and expensive investigation of Har- ry Bridges in an attempt to link him with the Communist movement. A defense witness, Capt. Charles Bakchy, declared at the deporta- tion hearing against the Western CIO leader that he was hired to conduct investigations. Bakchy, a bearded figure in a sports blouse shirt, said he was a former sea captain, prize fighter and wrestler. He said that he was paid $400 a month and expenses by Thomas Plant, head of the Amer- ican Hawaiian Steamship Company and former head of the Waterfront | Employers Association. He claimed that he later rec(-:lvedl $1,000 a month and expenses from Hugh Gallagher, who was operating | manager of the Mattson Navigation | Company. No Evidence Capt. Bakchy declared that he was investigating the activities of Bridg- es closely for nearly six months, but was unable to find any evidence that Bridges belonged to the Com- munist’ party. He added that the shipping executives who hired him were considerably annoyed that he failed to dog up damaging facts that could be used against the labor leader. The captain brought the name of the elusive Larry Doyle into the rec- ord along with those of the noted left wing writer, the late Lincoln Steffens and his wife, writer Ella Winter. The defense charged that Doyle, a former Portland attorney and special prosecutor, assembled the deportation case against Bridg- es, Refuses To Make Affidavit Capt. Bakchy testified that Doyle wanted him to make an affidavit| that he saw Bridges at a Commun- ist meeting at the Steffens’ home at Carmel, California. He also| quoted a Portland police captain, | Keegan, as saying that he should | keep away from Doyle because there | was a warrant out for Doyle at| Portland. When Keegan appeared | as a witness he said that he con-| sidered Doyle a reliable man and| aided him in some investigations. Meanwhile in Washington, At- torney General Prank Murphy or- Federal authori- ties to explain why they were un- able to find Doyle. Newspaper men and photographers have contacted Doyle without difficulty, yet Depu- ty United States Marshals have re- ported that he could not be found. A Federal Court subpoena for him was issued at San Francisco. Doyle openly attended the American Le- glon convention at Minneapolis dur- ing part of the time that the Unit- ed States Marshals were unable to find him, (Continuea on Page Six) (10 LEADER EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS Bridges SayTShipowners Must Change Pres- ent Aftitude ‘ SEATTLE, Aug. 18. — Harry Bridges, CIO leader on the Pa- cific Coast, today predicted a coast- wise shipping tieup on September 30 unless “ship owners change their attitude.” Bridges further said: ‘We have positive statements from leaders of the Waterfront Employers Asso- ciation that unless we accept re- newal of the present contract by September 30, with its objection- able features, ship loading will cease and longshoremen will be locked out.” Bridges said the longshoremen propose an increase from 95 cents to $1.10 per hour wage, rescinding of penalties for refusing to pass picket lines, such as anti-Jap scrap iron picketing, also a work day from 9 am, to 3 pm. and over- time outside of those hours. Steamship officials make na statement except to say the wage increase demahds and also other demands, have been flatly turned down. Two Alleged Gun Runners Under Arrest Japanese Taken Info Cus- tody in Los Angeles— Held to Grand Jury LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 18.— Two Japanese are held for the Fed- eral Grand Jury for investigation of alleged gun running activities. The suspects, Kinano Assno and |Kanie Nirai are charged with vio- lating the Neutrality Act by deliv- ering arms and ammunition to a Japanese steamship officer. Federal authorities indicated that more indictments might be expected following a p'and Jjury probe early next month.” Curb Stocks Take Slump Selling Hifs All Depart- menfs-Some Losses Recovered NEW YORK, Aug. 18—Curb stocks slumped today in imitation of stocks on the big board. ‘The selling hit all departments of the curb market. There were no outstanding declines. The worst of the selling came before 1 o'clock. Stocks regained part of their losses in the late trading, . Some foreign bonds were under pressure today as the general mar- ket weakened, A mild slump in Italy’s paper was the only clue of the market to reason for the gen- eral recession. Domestic issues lost fractions in spite of favorable re- ports on business in the United States. At Chicago wheat futures gained a quarter of a cent per bushel while corn dropped back an eighth of a cent to a quarter of a cent, SOLDIER ACCUSED OF RAPING ELDERLY WOMAN AT HAINES Charged with raping an elderly woman at Haines, Willlam A. Dent, a soldier at Chilkoot Barracks, has been arrested by U. 8. Deputy Mar- shal H. M. Callin and bound over to the Grand Jury. A Deputy from the Juneau office will be sent to Haines on the steam- er Alaska tomorrow to take Dent into custody.