The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURS SD/\Y; NOVEMBEI 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SHIPS SCUTTLED TO ESCAPE CAPT URE Notorious Gangster Released From Prison FIVE WAYS AROUND AL CAPONE FRENCH MAGINOT LINE ATLIBERTY | FROM CELL Turned Over fo ‘Relatives’ This Morning in East ENTERS HOSPITALIN | BALTIMORE AT NOON Tax Evader Completes Sen- tences-Time Out for Good Behavior WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, face” Al Capone, notorious gang- ster during prohibition days, with his big reign in Chicago, has been released to his “relatives” at Lew- ishurg, Pennsylvania, James V. Den- nett, Director of Federal Prisons announces. Capone, formerly in Alcatraz pris- on, was transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution near Los Angeles and very recently to the United States penitentiary at Lewis- burg NETHERLANDS & BELGIUM “Sear- was released today expiration of his sentence. Capone began serving a 10-year sentence for evasion of income tax- es on May 4, 1932. He completed this portion of his sentence on Jan- uary 19, 1939, upon which date he ving one year for failure to file his income tax returns. Allowances for good behavior cut his sentence to today. one upon hogan se AP Feature Service With the armies stalemated on the western front, strategists have been figuring how Hitler could get around the main part of the Maginot line. The map shows the possibilities. Four of them would mean the invasion of neutral countries. . . . And of course if the Allies tried to get around the Siegfried line, they could follow the same general routes. IN BALTIMORE HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, Mr. Nov. 16. “Searface” Al Capone has entered Union Memorial Hospital for obse vation and treatment. Dr. Joseph Moore declined to discuss the case TR but hospital officials said Capone was admitted under his own name. “22770 0. S, SUPREME COURT, DIES SUDDENLY IN WASHINGTON to be “relatives.” RSOV es FIVE U. 5. ARMY BOMBERS MAKE | FLIGHT T0 BRAZIL Two Others Are Held Up at Various Points But to Take fo Air Soon RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 16.—The five United States Army bombers which arrived here yesterday for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Brazilian Republic, took to the air today for a leisurely flight over the Brazilian country side. A sixth plane landed 400 miles WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Asso-| ciate Justice Pierce Butler of the| Supreme Court of the United States, \ died early today. The 73-year-old | Justice entered the hospital for treatment of bladder trouble last summer and, with the exception of two weeks ,when he was able to re- | turn home, remained there since. | His death means President Roose- velt’s appointées will be in the ma- jority on the Supreme Court bench. The President has already named four of those in the nine-man tri- bunal. Justice Butler was a Democrat but | officials of the Roosevelt Adminis- tration termed him one of two con- down the coast and a seventh is at | Servative members of the court, the Asuncion, Paraguay, with propellers other being Justice James McRey- broken when it stuck in the mud [P0l L | while trying to take off. Death of Justice Butler came sud- 1‘ They will join the others'in Rio|denly eatly today, neither his doctor | de Janeiro within a few days. nor members of his family being present, His special nurse called the doctor. BERNE, Switzerland, Nov. 16.— PIERCE BUTLER President’s Tribute | | attorney of the northwest and In a formal statement, President amassed a fortune before his ap- Roosevelt this morning expressed | pointment to the Supreme Court at regret at the passing of the Justice | the age of 56. and sad: ! | His background of rugged indi- 1 have known Justice Pierce But- | yiqualism was evidenced in his judi- ler for a great many years and al- | cja] philosophy. As a Supreme Court ways regarded him as a personal|jystice he was a staunch defender friend, undoubtedly with great abil-| of the individual and property rights ity. Complete frankness of expres- sion ,his philosophy and his honest convictions commanded my respect.” Funeral services will be held to- morrow morning in the St. Mat- thews Cathedral. The Supreme Court will adjourn until November 22 as a mark of respect. American Success Story | Swiss military authorities have ask- ed the governments of a number of cantons in the fortified or frontier zones of Switzerland to refuse to issue or renew licenSes to foreign- ers for running restaurants, inns or hotel. Swiss counter-espionage agents have found that restaurants, inns and hotels operated by foreigners|giiiona)l American success story—a in Switzerland have in some €ases|gorm poy rising to wealth and, high become espionage centers. T -~ - THE FIRST U. 8. closed cars 10 sell for less than $1.000 were made in 1923, initiative, He was born in a Minnesota log| cabin, worked his way through col- lege, became the leading railroad ' which he held were guaranteed by the constitution. There should be no legislation, he once said, which would hampes any poor youth from making his way to the top. His views on the constitution aligned him invariably, in split de- cisions, with the conservatives. He Pierce Butler's career was the tra- yun Devanter, Sutherland and Mc- than 30 piers. Reynolds voted to invalidate most of the New Deal laws of President place through his own energies and | Roosevelt's first term that reached | B€les. the court. Of all the justices, McReynolds F¥ (Coutinued on Pu’gc Four) GRUENING NAMED FOR GOVERNOR President Announces Re- cess Appointment Is Formally Made WASHINGTON, Nov nouncement is made the White House that Roosevelt has * formally given .aj recess appointment to Dr. E:rncst’ Gruening to be Governor of Al-| aska, succeeding Gov. John W. Troy, | resigned last August 29 to be ef-] fective October 15 | Dr. Gruening has been Director, | Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the Interior Depart-| ment 16. President | — e DEMOCRATS WILL MEET FOR CAUCUS Session Is Called for Fridayi Night, November 24, at 8 o'Clock A call for ucus of Demo- crats of the First, Second and Third precincts of Juneau was is-| sued today, the caucus to meet on| Friday night, November 24, at 8 o'clock in Union Hall, the Moose Hall. At the caucus delegates will be chosen for the Divisional Conven- jon in Ketchikan, also commit- teemen will be elected Committeemen of the three pre-| cincts now are as follows: | First precinct—Harley J. Turner; Second Precinct, Leest; Third Precinct, Neil Moore, All Democrats are urged to be in attendance at the caucus. e, MARINE STRIKES CLOSE REFINERY IN CALIFORNIA Two Thousand Men Are Thrown Out of Work Indefinitely i a | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 16.— Shutdown of the California-Hawai- |ian sugar refinery at Crockett, the largest in the world, is announced |as direct result of the San Fran- | cisco Bay waterfront tieup. Thre | strikes are still unsettled. W. B. Taylor, operating Vice- President of the refinery, said about 12,000 employees will be thrown oul of work indefinitely. There are no ships to move raw sugar in and} refined sugar out, it was explained | One of the three strikes, that of the Independent Union of Marine Firemen against the Shipowners | Association of the Pacific Coast and | Coastwise Steam Schooners is re- ported near settlement | In Oakland the strike of C I e} | union warehousemen over methods of handling a cargo of peas received rom a struck warehouse in San Josc appeared further from settlement | than ever. | No progress s reported this morn- ng by W. T. Geurth, Maritime La- | bor Board Mediator in efforts to {find a basis on which to settle the | strike of C T O ship clerks and dock | checkers which has tied up mor Matson Line officials | announced the Matsonia would | directly to Honolulu from Los An- The American President previously announced the esident Cleveland will sail for the Orient Saturday from Los Angeles instead of from this port, Lines 1 old H. L. Vander-| British Luxury Liner Takes on War Supplies Prison Bound | ISU President Tries Suicide Slashes Ankle with Razor, Steps in Bath with Water Running La., Nov. DeBretton an- BATON ROUGE, 16.— Sheriff Newman nounced today that Dr. James Monroe Smith, former Louisiana ate University president, attempt- ed to commit suicide this morning |in his jail cell by slashing his foot with a razor blade, Smith is scheduled to be to the state penitentiary row to serve sentences eight to 24 years for misuse school funds. DeBretton said Smith was weakened adition, but not danger of d His bed covered with blood, Smith was found in the bathtub with the water running when a jail atten- dant went to serve him coffee Physicians found Smith’s blood pressures had dropped to 80 from his normal 110 and said a trans- | fusion might be necessary if his blood pressure does not build up quickly. taken tomor- totalling ' of in a in - Ashburn Suddenly Removed Deparfment of Commerce, Ousfs Inland Water- | ways Corp.’sHead | WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 The Commerce Department has abruptly ousted Major General T. Q. Ashburn from the Inland Waterways Cor- poration which he headed since its formation in 1 | is made also Now that the embargo on selling arms and war supplies to belligerent nations has been lifted, lin- ers of the British passenger service have been: nressed into use rushing the “sinews of war” from |tary Harry slatte the ‘United States to the embattled Allles. The magnificent Monarch of Bermuda, shown in dock at Brooklyn, N. Y. is being loaded for a dast through 'the submarine hlockade. REPORTERS LISTENING T0 STEVEEARLY AREHEARING HIS MASTER’S VOICE ALSO )Em'lv former ace State Department | correspondent and now Secretary to ON S I.A]'I E R | President Roosevelt, has suddenly | appeared, like a magic oasis in the | desert, as the most productive foun- | tain of foreign news in Washing- | ton Inferior Department Letter Says Immigration Bars Are fo Stay Up The Department of the Im.-rmr’w has no intention to propose lower- ing of immigration to Alaska |, otion on foreign affairs in order promote colonization | girect, and and development of the Territory.|preqs conference statements come in In fact, the intention of the De-|gharp contrast to the meatless re- STON GROV ( He occupies a ground floor office ‘lm the opposite side of the execu- Jtive wing from that of the Presi- {dent. But in recent weeks he has | come closer to being an official Roo- | sevelt spokesman than any of the | several members of the Brain Club !who in the early days of the New |Deal spoke, or presumed to speak, | the White House mind, At times spartment puffing in the rear as a purveyor of government infor- to pertment is to raise the immigra-|p,jjes of Secretary of State Hull, who| tion standards so that in carrying|gor more than a year has operated proposals of the Slattery report into | rr on the side of caution. Of late, effect only Highly qualified individ-|yowever, since the blossoming of ual settlers would be encouraged t0!garly, even Secretary Hull's con- settle in Alaska, | ferences have become more decisive. This was the reassuring word re-| garly’s conferences with White ceived this week by the Juneau|gouse correspondents are not new. Chamber of Commetce in a letter | ge has had them almost every morn- from E. K. Burlew, Acting Secre-|ins for ye as a means of posting tary of the Interior. Under Secre-|ihe reporters regularly assigned to whose report | the President. Six to ten reporters was the usual attendance. Recently |as many as two score have crowded |into his office, for it has fallen to him to deliver big news breaks, |along with steaming comment. evoked criticisms from Alaska, is no longer with the Department, hau- ing been appointed Rural Electri- fication Administrator. Answered by Chamber Burlew's letter was answered im mediately by the local chamber through its special Slattery Report committee, headed by H. L. Faulk- ner. The Chamber letter expressed sratification at the interpretation Burlew made of various sections of the Slattery report and reiterated some points which the local Cham- ber felt Burlew had overlooked in its brief sent Lo Washngton recent- ly REPLIES TO MOLOTOFF Early made the first reply Premier Molotoff of Russia who had ribbed President Roosevelt about being “unneutral” for speaking out for Finland in its dealings with the Soviet Early implied that Premier Molo- | toff had timed his comment on Am- |erican neutrality and the disclosure of the demands upon Finland they would have most effect upon Ithe consideration by the House of arms embargo repeal Burlew's letter, dated November 9, was as follows The Letter “I have given careful thought to he has left the State| Early’s | sometimes sarcastic | to| NATIS SINK ' TWO VESSELS, * BEATBRITISH Announcement of German Evasion of Combat Made Today ENGLISH WARSHIPS MAKE FOUR CAPTURES Weekly War_ReporI Made fo House of Commons {hambeilain i | ‘ LONDON, Nov. 16.—The British | Government reported the capture of four German ships and the scuttling | of two others to avoid being taken, as the week's toll of the present war on the sea. The announcement is contained in | the weekly report on the war made | to the House of Commons by Prime | Minister Chamberlain. | The report, in the absence of Chamberalin, who is laid up with | the gout, was read by Chancellor of | the Excheduer Sir John Simon, | The report said that most of the German ships which attempt to sail jon the high seas are captured or | seuttled to avold capture. | The vessels scuttled were the 8- | 000-ton Mecklenburg and the 6,000~ ton Parana. The British Admiralty announced | that the two German ships scuttled were sent to the bottom by British warships after the crews had aband- oned them in a sinking condition. postisils e TS | | WAGE, HOUR ACT WIDELY - APPLICABLE Almost All Industries and Businesses in Alaska Under Provisions Employees of almost all industries and businesses in Alaska are subject to the provisions of the fair labor standards act, known popularly as the wage and hour act. New interest in the provisions of the act was aroused by the change of standards on October 24 to a |maximum work week of 42 hours. Next year on the same date the num- ber of hours per week which may | be worked without payment of over- | time will be reduced again to 40 This is the last change provided in the act. An opinion of the wage and hour counsel that the reduction to 42 hours must be an actual one and could not be accomplished by “book- keeping” was issued at the time of the change. Law Ctied The law states that wage and hour provisions apply to all types of | employment except that they “shall 1|mL apply with respect to (1) any | employee employed in a bona fide lexecutive, administrative, profes- ‘-slmml. or local retailing capacity, or in the capacity of outside salesman | (as such terms are defined and de- limited by regulations of the Admin- istrator); or (2) any employee en- s0/| . gaged in any retail or service es- tablishment the greater part of whose selling or servieing is in intra- state commerce; or (3) any employce The announcement that Chester Thompson to me,” the criticized “It would seem Early, “that he had in mind when he President. of the neutrality moral support which President was lending {land Such has been | the brief which you submitted under installed as President of the Cor- date of October 11, commenting on poration. | the recent Departmental Report, The cause for the action is not|‘The Problem of Alaskan Devgelop- stated. |ment.’ You have raised a number S e lof important questions that should wl""s ARE BOUND | be considered in connection with fOR “Ew MEX'( further Alaskan development words, implying “I am glad to see that the brief |bladed dealing by the are scarcely diplomatic John Winn, sailed on the Princess of the following essential points Norah, going south for the Wwinter.|giressed by the Deparment: (1) that | future Federal activities intended to Mrs. Anna Winn and her sOoh.|emphasizes the value to Alaskal less the many cautious minds sald embargo | the probably more because |y o issue than of the | he said the | to Pin- double- | Doubt- | employed as a seaman; or (4) any employee of a carrier by air sub- ject to the provisions of title IT of Railway Labor Act; or (5) any employee employed in the catching, taking, harvesting, taking, cultivat- ing, or farming of any kind of fish, shellfish, crustacea, sponges, sea- weeds, or other aquatic forms of animal or vegetable life, including the going to and returning from in|work and including employment in the State Department, which Early the loading, unloading, or packing They will visit Burdett Winn, an- o settlers are y o 70 |used to cover as i before settlers are encouraged to WJ [S s an Assoclated | ¢ <ion products for shipment or other son, in Hollister, New Mexico, | returning next Spring, (Continued on Page Seven) (Continued on Page Threge) “ (Continued ng ?a(ie Eigt{t}