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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
Proposal Based on Cheney S
Plan of 1886 Wage and
Fact Finding Commission
COMPLETE ACCORD IS
REACHED SAYS MARSH
Senator Walker Sends En-
thusiastlc Comment on
Settlement to Governor

SEATTLE, April 13-Members of
the Alaska Fishermen's Union in
Seattle and Bellingham will vote
tonight on formula for a peace
pact that it is hoped will end the
deadlock between the canneries and
labor that has threatened to close
Alaska salmon canneries for the
1888 season.
The proposal provides that the
men will work on the basis Of the
best offer Of the packers until
such a time as a fact finding COM
mission determines if packers are
financially able to pay more. Pro-
vision is made in the proposal that
if the commissions findings are
favorable to the fishermen, the can
ners will pay up to ten per cent
increase over 1897 The men will
go to work on the 1896 scale, which
is ten to twenty per cent under
1887.
Proposal Recommended
George Lane, publicity chairman
for the coordinating committee of
the Maritime Federation of the
Pacific said the proposal had been
recommended to the union for
adoption.
Collector of Customs Saul Haas.
member of the committee which
has been working on a settlement
of the wage dispute between the
canneries and union, announced that
the plan for settlement was based
chiefly upon the proposal made
Monday by Federal Mediator Joseph
Cheney.
Boats May Leave Saturday
Union leaders said today that
boats could begin leaving for Al
aska Saturday.
Ernest Marsh Department of La
Dor Conciliator, forecast acceptance
of the peace proposal.
Operators and labor union lead
ers seem to have reached complete
accord" Marsh said.
The peace proposal reached at a
conference last night applies to
cannery operations in all sections
of Alaska except the Boring Sea
and part of Bristol Bay, agreements
for which are negotiated annually
at San Francisco.
Amendments Suggested
Two amendments to the original
settlement formula offered by Med
iator Cheney were made by the
unions, according to George Lane.
The first amendment would re-
quire that the fact finding board
have access to cost and sales rec
ords pertaining to the 1887 pack
and also to investment and LA
bility records and ANY other per-
tinent information"
The second amendment would
not limit the maximum wage award
to the 1887 schedule as maximum,
but would give boosts or cuts,
wherever justified.
The proposed amendments were
submitted by the Machinists and
Radio Telegraphists Unions n d
will be voted on today by the
Continued on Page Eight
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
PARIS GROUP
VOTES POWER
TO DALADIER
Senate Asked to Give Pre-.
mier Unusual Powers
of Decree
BULLETIN-PARIS, April 10.
The French Senate has voted
288 to l to give Premier DaIa-
der decree powers until July
81.

PARIS, April 49, The Senate
Finance Committee voted today IS
to 0 to recommend that the Senate
approved Premier Daladier's bill
giving the Cabinet powers to gov
ern France by decree until July 81
The bill was approved by the
Chamber of Deputies yesterday, 500
to H.
Premier Daladier said he was de-
termined to end political strikes. y
He told the Senate Finance Com
mittee that one of his first derees
would be to require a government
controlled vote of all workers be-
fore any strike is declared.
Strikers are beginning TO return
to work in aviation plants, fearing
they viii be modified and sent
back to work as soldiers.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
CONGRESSIONAL.
INVESTIGATORS
ON PROBE EARLY
Tn ey Come from Any.
where, Serve, Then Drop,
Perhaps Out of Sight
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, April 13.-Days
before the IVA investigation could
take shape, nimble -witted Congress
sional investigators began to digest
the possibilities for making it into
headlines.
Back of every Congressional in
vestigation that amounts to PIN
weight proportions is. the crew Of
Investigators. They are keener than
hacksaws and like no other type of
Investigator. They are a breed unto
themselves.
They blow in from some uneX-
pected corner, operate for the most
part without more than casual pub
licity, then filter off into some
other work
An investigator with three years
experience is veteran. Five years
experience makes an old master.
And all this happens usually while
the man is in his late twenties or
in his thirties.
Noted in the recent crop ar Fer
dinand Pecora, whose flashing in
vestigation of big financial names
put across the securities and ex-
change legislation. Now he is on
the New York State Supreme Coure.
Stephen Raushenbush headed the
Senate Munitions Committee in
vestigation. Out of it grew the
ballyhoo for the neutrality bill,
public ownership of munitions fac
tories, and war-profits legislation.
Now he is motive cog in the Ma
tional Peace Conference machinery.
Alger Hiss, one of Harvard's
brighter young lawyers, helped
Rausenbush, as did Larry La
rouche. Hiss now is in the State
Department reciprocal trade divi-
sion, Larouche in the Indian serv-
ice.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
Vernon Spencer
Is Acquitted of
Charge, Murder

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont, April
13.-The former New York Giant
outfielder, Vernon Spencer. has
been acquitted of the murder of
a Pontiac. Mich, stenographer,
Helen Grier.
A jury brought in a verdict of
not guilty after celebrating less
than four hours.
Justice McTague had told the
jurymen before they retired that
his conscience would never permit
him to convict Spencer on the
evidence presented during the trial.
The prosecution charged that the
ball player shot Miss Grier last
october in a secluded cabin. The
defense claimed that the Michigan
woman took her own life.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
LENTEN SERVICE
SET TONIGHT AT
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Lenten devotional services will
be brought to close tonight in
the Resurrection Lutheran Church
with Pastor John L. Cauble speak
ing upon, Returning from Beneath
the Cross"
The service will begin promptly
at 7:45 o'clock. and the general
public is invited.
Thursday at 7:45 pm, the Holy
Sacrament of the Lords Supper
will be administered to the mem
bers and friends of the congrega-
ton. Visitors will be extended well
come at both services.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
MexicO's Seizure of Oil
Concessions Has Meaning:
Trouble Started Years A 90
BY MORGAN M. BEATTY
Alp Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, April 10. = A
revolutionary firecracker whose fuse
has been sputtering in Mexico for
generation, has just exploded in
the faces of American and British
oil companies-and their govern
ments.
That's the meaning of President
Lazaro Cardenas' decision to ex-
propriate foreign oil holdings and
empower native workers to run
them in the name of the Mexican
government.
The fuse was lighted early in
this century when Francisco Ma
dero and a group of revolutionists
or patriots. according to your
point of vieW-promised to make
the nation a Mexico for Mexi-
cans"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
LUCAS TAKES
LEAD IN RACE
ILL.,, SENATOR
Gov. Homer S lacked Can.
didate Appears Win
ming Over Igoe

CHICAGO, H., April 13-Repre-
sentative Scott W. Lucas, backed
by Gov. Henry Horner's recently
developed power in Illinois Demo-
cratic politics, has assumed a grow
ing lead in the Democratic Party's
Senatorial nomination over Michael
Igoe, United States District Attor-
ney, adherent of the faction DOM
mated by Mayor Edward j. Kelly,
of Chicago, and Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman Patrick A..
Nash.
Has $4,000 Lead
Lucas, who is serving his second
term in the National House from
the district of the late Speaker
Rainey, held practically $4,000
lead early this afternoon as returns
were counted from 1911 of the
States 1926 precincts from yester-
days Statewide primaries for
United States Senator, 81 Congress-
men, three state Officers, Leglsla-
ture and county officers.
Igoe scored heavily in Cook
County but the down State" vote
is cutting into him.
How They Stand
Lucas early afternoon vote is
approximately 674,000 and Igoe's
vote 1000 Both Democratic fac
tons had the support of President
Roosevelt.
Political experts attribute the huge
total Democratic ballot to Repub-
lican voters who crossed the party
lines to participate in the heated
Democratic internal fight.
State Senator Richard Lyons, bit
ter foe of the New Deal, is assured
of the Republican Senatorial nom
nation.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13

CAPONE'S CASE
HEARD IN WEST
Legal Battle Over Release
to Be in San Fran
cisco Court

CHICAGO, April 13-Defense at
torneys announce that the legal
battle to free Capone from Alcatraz
Island Prison will be transferred 10
a San Francisco Federal Court.
The gangster is serving ten years
at Alcatraz for income tax evasion.
The one-time gang leaders moth
er, petitioned for his release on the
ground that he served his sem
tence, allowing time off for good
behavior.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
THE PRESENT CROP

Busiest of present Investigators
are Herbert A. Blomquist, head Of
the Lobby Committee staff; Max
Lowenthal, master of the. hounds
for Senator Wheeler's Railroad In
vestigation Committee; and Robert
Wohlforth. doing it for the Senate
Civil Liberties Committee.
They don't come from the placid
civil service ranks. Blomquist came
CONTINUED on Page Five)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
LAD KILLS HIS
STEPFATHER IN
ATTACK, MOTHER

ABILENE. Tex, April 13-Fif-
teen-year old Daniel Arnold has
been released on bail in the fatal
shooting of his stepfather, Blenard
Owens.
Young Arnold told authorities
that he shot his stepfather after
Owens threatened to kill the boys
mother.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
Attempted to
Get Large Sum
From Ford, Son

DETROIT, Mich. April 10. = A
Federal grand jury has indicted
Wesley Earl Gray, %, arrested last
month in Texas on charge of at
tempting to extort $4,000 from
Henry Ford and son, Edsel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
BACK TO THE INDIANS

First, they proposed to give the
land back to the Indians. Indians
and mestizos Chalf-breeds) COM
prise close to 80 per cent of the
population.
Next, they promised to kick out
the foreigners and take over the
vast mineral resources of the coun-
try-mostly silver and oil.
The revolutionary cause seemed
hopeless in those days. Dictator
Porfirio Diaz had been entrenching
his ruthless regime for quarter
OF a century.
He fostered accumulation of prop
erty by a comparatively few fam
lilies. He invited foreign capital
to help him develop the country
in return for rich profits.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13
THE DILEMMA

Here were the horns of diem
ma. If a leader drove out foreign
Continued on Page Four)
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1938-04-13

Baron Joseph Lister, founder OF
antiseptic surgery, was born at Up
ton, Essex, in 1927.
Evening star., 1938-02-25
SUNSPOT HEIGHT
IS BELIEVED NEAR
DR.. Harlan T. Stetson
Speaks on CycIonic Solar
WhirIpooIs.

The height of the present sunspot
maximum may be just approa ching,
DR.. Harlan T. Stetson Of the Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology said
in the annual Arthur lecture of the
Smithsonian Institution last night.
Last July 70-year record was set
for the number of these cyclonic
whirlpools in the solar atmosphere
which may have far-reaching effects
on life on earth, and then there was
a sharp drop, indicating that the
crisis had been passed. But with the
first of the year, DR.. Stetson said, the
number started up again and now
has regained nearly two-thirds Of its
lost ground. If the movement con-
tinues the record should be reached
some time in March or April.
During the present sunspot maxi
mum, DR.. Stetson said, there have
been almost daily observations Of
some Of their effects. There has been
observed generally an increase in the
ultraviolet light reaching the sur
face of the earth. A thick armor Of
the rare gas, ozone, protects life on
the planet from too heavy doses Of
the death-dealing bullets of ultra
violet received from the sun, which
varies in accordance with the thick
ness Of the protecting blanket and
with the amount Of the light emitted
II it is established there actually
is an increased amount Of ultra
violet received 1t might account for
some Of the biological variations
which have been associated with the
sunspot maxima. One effect which
has been established\ he said, is
that Of violent electrical disturb
ances 100 miles high in the earth's
atmosphere. The ultra violet ionizes
the upper regions Of the atmosphere,
making them electrically conducting
and giving them the property Of re-
Meeting surfaces. returning radio
waves back to earth. This radio
ceiling appears to rise and fall not
only every day with the alterations
Of light and darkness. but also over
a longer interval very close to that
Of the sunspot cycle.
DR.. Stetson offered a tentative ex-
planation for sunspots as due pri-
marily to the very weak tides raised
nthe tenuous outer atmosphere OF
the sun by the planets Mercury,
Venus, Earth and Jupiter. The 9TH
ers are either too small, like Mars,
or too far away, like Saturn and
Uranus, to have any tidal effect.
These tides, he said, may happen to
synchronize with the natural periods
Of the solar atmosphere's vibration
so that progressively tremendous
forces are built up. If the syn
chronization Is not exact. however,
the disturbance will pass from max
ina to minima and then build up
again.
Evening star., 1938-02-25

business. Any reports 10 the con.
trary are absolute Misrepresentation
Of fact and Ahould prompt prospective
investors to Be extremely careful"
Evening star., 1938-02-25
ENDORSEMENT DENIED
BY BUSINESS BUREAU

]. W. Marshall, Director Of Trade
Policing" Body, says It's
Against Policy.
Joseph w. Marshall, director Of the
Better Business Bureau, today took
issue with reports that the bureau
had indorsed a new enterprise here.
The Better Business Bureau" he
said, docs not approve, recommend
suggest or indorse any person OF
Evening star., 1938-02-25
Rabbi Metx to Sneak.

Rabbi Solomon H. Metz Will speak
on THE Place Of the Jewish Woman
IN Religion" at the services tonigh.
Of the Adas Israel Hebrew Consresa.
tion, Sixth and I streets NV. Fol-
lowing the services, Miss Goldie Bach
man will conduct an open forum on
The Cultural Contribution Of the
Jewish Women to Society,""
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
"GOing PLaces''

"What I am talking about is
that all of our young people in
my section of the country think
that we are going places
Those two words, going
places" seem to be an essential
in modern civilization.
They represent the conviction
on the part of the young people
Of America that life never re-
mains static; that there are bet
ter days ahead than ever before;
that an opportunity to find a
way of life, to a living, to raise
a family in comfort and security
are better today and will be bet
ter tomorrow.
There may be those in the
world who believe that a regi-
mentated people, whose every
thought and action is directed
by one man, may give some
people type of security which
is pleasing to them. But what
ever convictions I have, none is
stronger than my abiding belief
that the security and well-being
of the American people can best
be served by the Democratic pro
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Crop Control

A few days ago in Georgia, I
talked with an old friend whom
I have known for 10 years. He
was what might be called an old
fashioned Southern conServa-
tive. We got to "reminiScing"
about the old days when I first
lived in Georgia.
He reminded me of the days
when cotton was selling at five
cents a pound, and, while he
admitted that the ramifications
of our Federal legislation, and
especially of court decisions dur
ing the past six years, were
somewhat beyond him, he = l.
lowed that some principle of
crop control-cotton and tobac-
co-decided on by a majority of
the farmers themselves, was the
most democratic way to prevent
the return of five cent cotton.
He reminded me of two lit
tie banks in Warm Springs. Ga.
banks in which many thou
sands of dollars of local savings
had been deposited-of the fail
ure of both of these banks and
the loss of the savings-and of
the fact today that deposits in
the banks of the United States
are safe, and, he remarked:
II hope that that type of lib
eral legislation will not be re-
pealed."
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Abided by Chief

1t is recognition of this
philosophy that has made the
University of North Carolina
representative of liberal teach
ing. And it is my recognition OF
your recognition of tnat phil
osophy that brings me SO will
ingly to Chapel Hill today.
1t is a far cry from the days
of my first visit to the uni
versity, nearly a quarter of a
century ago. I came then be-
cause my old chief-that great
North Carolina Liberal, JoSephus
Daniels.-told me 1 should see
for myself a great institution OF
learning which was thinking
and acting in terms of today
and tomorrow, and not in the
tradition of yesterday.
In those days the leadership
Of the nation was in the hands
Of a great President who was
seeking to recover for our social
system ground which had been
lost under his conservative
predecessor, and to restore some
thing of the fighting liberal
spirit which the nation had
gained under Theodore Roose-
welt.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
T. r. is Quoted

I was reading a letter OF
Theodore Roosevelt the other
day, written to a friend in the
spring of 1908, and it will, I
think, interest and amuse you
if 1 quote from it. He was
writing to a man who was fight
ing for social and political
decency on the Pacific Coast.
He said:
Now and then you must feel
down-hearted when you see men
guilty of the most atrocious
crimes who, from some cause or
other, succeed in escaping pun
ishment, and especially when
you see men of wealth, Of
high business, and, in a sense,
of high social standing, banded
together against you.
My dear sir, l want you to
feel that your experience is sim
ply the experience of all of us
who are engaged in this fight.
There is no form of slander and
wicked falsehood in which the
New York papers, not only those
representing the lowest type Of
demagogy, but those represent
ing the interests that call them
selves prominently conserva-
tive, prominently cultured,
have not INDUCED in, as regards
myself
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
ADVERTISEAIENT A
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Is Your DangerSigna

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Even If other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, try Creomll-
sion. Your druggist is authorized to
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thoroughly satisfied with the bene.
fitS obtained. CreomulSion is one
word, ask for it plainly, see that the
name on the bottle is Creomulsion,
and you'll get the genuine product
and the relief you want.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Secession Issue

And here IN the South it is
worth remembering that the
first suggestion of secession from
the Union was proposed by dele
gates from the New England
States in the Hartford conven-
tion in 1914.
In both cases, tolerance and
the national point of view were
absent. Another generation went
by and it was the same lack Of
tolerance, the same lack of
national point Of view which
brought about a war which was
not inevitable-the War Be-
tween the States.
The scene changed and the ma
ton was confronted not by a
sectional difference, but a strug-
gle for economic and social con-
troll; period which saw the
control of our National Govern
ment by groups of individuals,
who, owning their government,
through owning vast financial
power, used the plea of develop
ment of our national resources
that they might feather their
own nests.
In the lifetime of people who
are still with us there were men
whom we must admit had cour-
age and vision, who pushed rail
roads across the plains, opened
mines, damned rivers, created
vast aggregations of capital, and
left in their wake vast aggrega-
tions of national and State and
local political power.
In a sense, those were glorious
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Must Face Issues

Because we live in an era of
acceleration we can no longer
trust to the evolution Of future
decades to meet these new prob
lens. They rise before us today
and they must be met today.
That is why the younger gen.
Grafton means so much in our
current affairs. They are part
of the picture in their twenties
without having to wait until
they have passed middle age.
That is why I, myself, asso-
ciate myself SO greatly with the
younger generation.
That is why I am happy and
proud to become an alumnus Of
the University of North Caro-
lima, typifying, as it does, Ameri-
can liberal thought through
American action.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
National Tragedy

1t seemed one of our national
tragedies that just when Wood
row Wilson was beginning to &C
complish definite improvements
in the living standards of
America, the World War not
only interrupted his course, but
laid the foundation for IL years
of retrogression.
say this advisedly because it
is not progress, but the reverse,
when a nation goes through the
madness of the 'twenties, piling
up paper profits, Matching all
manner of speculations and
coming inevitably to the day
when the bubble bursts.
1t is only the unthinking lib
erals in this world who see moth
ing but tragedy in the slowing
up or temporary stopping Of
liberal progress.
1t is only the unthinking con-
servatives who rejoice when a
social or economic reform fails
to be 100 per cent, successful.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

ton of one dollar from the
Federal Government.
He reminded me of the COM
plete lack Of any social security
program-of the days when =
home-builder was charged is and
20 per cent to borrow the money
to build his house-of the days
when slum clearance was a
beautiful ideal on paper and no
where else.
And when he left, he said
"Young man. 1 don't know the
United States the way you do,
but l know this section of the
Nation pretty we'll. I don't
understand the actual working
out of all these new-fangled
things that the Government has
been starting in these past six
years.
But I know this section of
the country and I want to tell
you that there is new spirit
abroad in the land. I am not
talking about the fact that there
is more buying power, that
houses are painted that were
never painted before, that our
banks are safe, that our roads
and schools are better.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Bitter Feeling

From all 1 can gather, the
feeling against me, not only in
Wall Street, not only in the buSi-
ness houses Of the greatest f.
nancierS of New York, but also
in most Of the uptown clubs. E.
it is just in these places that
the feeling against me has been
most bitter.
GAS a matter of fact, do not
care a snap of my fingers about
it. I do not care whether they
think we'll of me or think i'll OF
me. But I do care a very great
deal to do this work without
flinching. on the one hand, and
on the other hand, without be-
coming angered and irritated to
a degree that will in any way
cause me to lose my head.
Nov, so it is with you and
your associates. You must keep
reasonably good natured; but
above all things, you must not
lose heart: and you must battle
on valiantly, no matter what
the biggest businessmen may
say. no matter what the mob
may say, no matter what may
be said by that element which
chooses to regard itself as
socially the highest element.
"You are in a fight for plain
decency, for the plain democracy
of the plain people who believe
in honesty and in fair dealing
between man and man. Do not
get disheartened; and keep up
the fight"