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Evening star., 1939-05-22

REFRIGERATOR - Frigidaires, General
Electrics, Westinghouse, Kelvnators Leon
makes. Most Of these are 1898 floor models,
few are 1897 models Formerly were sold
UP to S195 will be sacrificed at prices as
original factory crates will be slashed at
prices at 500 of list prices Reconditioned
refrigerators, standard makes. as low as
500. 25 years merchandising appliances to
the public is your guarantee of true values.
Easy terms Unusual liberal trade-in allow
Largest Appliance House, 713 G st. NV.
Dist. 3737. Open ewes. till pm.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
FARLEY MAKING.
POLITICAL TRIP

INDIANAPOLIS Ind, May 13.-
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley paid a brief visit here enroute
to the Pacific Coast for a series OF
addresses as Chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee.
Farley cheerfully predicted that
the Democrats will elect President
again in 1910.
While in Indianapolis, Farley con-
ferred with Dick Weller. private
secretary to Gov. Townsend. 1t is
believed that the conference might
have concerned the possibility OF
the Democratic Presidential candi-
dacy of a former Governor of In
diana, Paul McNutt, now Hi g h
Commissioner of the Philippine Is
lands.
In Columbus, Ohio, where Farley
addressed the Regional Conference
of Democratic women, he gave a
warning not to underestimate the
resources of their political opposi-
ton.
Farley declared, that the Repub-
lican Party is backed by the ma
tons wealthiest individuals.
Farleys trip will cover eleven
states and is being made to get
first-hand information from a poll
teal standpoint.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
Pouneed Upon When Goes
10 Meet Friend Follow
ing TeIephoneCalI
BOUND, GAGGED, IS
ALSO BLINDF0LDED
Taken 10 Lonely House for
Niqht-Anti-HifIer Book
Is Believed Cause

| BAKERSFIELD Cal, May 10. -
Bound and gagged, George Palmer
Putnam, So, husband of the late
Amelia Earhart, and Hollywood
publisher, was found today in an
uncompleted house few hours
after he had been kidnapped from
his home,
Putnam was unhurt. He said the
kidnapers demanded the name oil
the author of an anonymous book,
1.-The Man Who Killed Hitler" and
suggested Putnam would be health
Ter If he ceased printing the book.
Publisher Putnam said the kid
napers were very decent men and
didn't rough me up at all"
He said he refused their demands
to reveal the name of the anti
Hitler books author.
Putnam recalled warnings he had
received apparently from his as
sailants, via telephones. He had also
received bullet riddled copy of the
disputed book. and two letters
threatening his life, which he re-
ported to police within the past
month.
On one occasion, Putnam fired
two shots at man who was climb
ing tree near his bedroom win
dow.
Late yesterday he received a tele-
phone call to meet friend and
when he went to his garage to get
his car, two men jumped upon him.
tied him up and blindfolded him.
They walked me to this house.
Putnam said, land then tapped my
hands and legs tightly. They then
left me. worked all night to get
loose. At daybreak l.. managed to
work the gag loose and call for
help"
Police had issued a statewide tele-
type message that Putnam was
missing when his Secretary report
ed his employer did not come home
during the night.
Police expressed the belief that
the kidnapers were members OF
California branch of the German
American Bund.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
1910 START SURVEY FOR
PROPOSED ALASKA ROAD
Two Parties Will Take Field Late This Month on Ground
Reconnaissance Of Eastern Route for Infernafon-
al Highway; Crews Will Work from Each End in
Addition TO Aerial Inspection Planned This Sum
mer by Commission

VICTORIA, B. c., May l3.-Cana-
dian Government sources announce
that a ground survey of the pro-
posed eastern or Rocky Mountain
trench route for the Alaska High
way will be started soon.
Two survey parties will leave at
the end of this month from each
end of the proposed route which is
alternative to the western route by
way of Hazleton and Atlin.
The western route was surveyed
roughly some years ago.
The eastern route, currently to be
surveyed by ground reconnaissance,
will be in addition to the aerial in
spection planned by the Alaska
Highway Commission of the Cana
dian section.
One of the survey parties will go
in from Fort st. James, working
from the end of the Manson Creek
mining road down the Manson
River to Port Grahame and Sifton
Pass.
The other survey party will go by
way of Telegraph Creek, and Nc
Danes Creek, work south from the
lower post on the Lizard River, fol-
lowing it to Sifton Pass.
The route is regarded by some
engineers as more favorable from
a construction point of view than
the western route.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
R0THSCHILD
IS RELEASED
GERMANY
Baron Set Free After Held
IS Months in Vienna
for Ransom

ZURICH. May l3.-Baron Louis
Rothschild, member of the famous
European banking family has been
released in Vienna by the German
Secret Police after Is months i'm
rrisonment, according to reports
received here by his friends. 1t is
said that the Baron, looking aged
and weak. plans suit against the
Nazi Government to regain his con-
fiscated fortune.
Baron Rothschild was arrested in
March, 1888. From the time Ger
many annexed Austria he was con-
sidered a prisoner and was virtually
held for more than $10,000,O00 ram
som. He was locked in two rooms
in the Metropole Hotel in Vienna
and the Nazis would not release
him until a full property settlement
was made.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
SKILLED men
NOW WANTED,
PLANE FIRMS
Government Is Informed
10000 Additional
Workers Needed

WASHINGTON, May l3.-Gov-
ernment experts have reported to
President Roosevelt that there Will
be a shortage Of aircraft mechanics
in time of war and recommend that
existing facilities for training work
ers to be skilled be expanded to the
limit
A committee, headed by Oswald
Ryan, of the Aeronautics Authority,
reports that 10000 additional work
ers to supplement- the 10000 current
ly employed in the aviation industry
are needed to execute the Army. Navy
and Air Corps expansion.
Ryan asked that there be estab-
lished Immediately apprenticeship
systems in all aircraft manufacture
ing plants and to encourage public
vocational trade schools to assist
the aircraft companies and aid
youths showing aptitude for mechan-
ical trades.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
NEUTRALITY
LEGISLATION
INTRODUCED
Senator Gillette sProposal
Calls for Complete
New Deal

WASHINGTON, May 13.--Mem-
bers of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee are inclined to
look upon the neutrality problem,
the Gillette proposal introduced by
the Senator from Iowa, as answer
to the puzzling issue.
The Gillette proposal calls for
complete repeal of the present neu-
trality law and would give the Pres
ident authority to declare war zones
in which American shippers may
trade at their own risk.
The measure is said to have the
approval of the State Department.
Introduction of the bill came at
a time when the dispute over neu-
trality legislation was threatening
to delay an early adjournment of
Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
GERMANY GIVEN
SHOCK As TURKS
SWING BRITISH
Nazi Nation Disturbed al
Trend Of Developments
in Latest Alliance

BERLIN, May 13.--Germany is
gravely disturbed by the published
information that Turkey has be-
come a military ally of Great Bril-
tain.
Turkey holds a vitality strategic
position in the Mediterranean, and
Great Britain has been negotiating
with her for weeks
Germany had hoped to keep Tur-
key out of the British camp. She
sent her veteran diplomat Vor
Papen, to Ankara some time ago tc
forestall the possibility of a Turk
iSh- British alliance. Won Papen has
met with complete failure.
Prime Minister Chamberlain an
nounced yesterday that in case OF
aggression which would lead to a
war in the Mediterranean, Britain
and Turkey would lend each other
all possible aid.
Negotiations are still going on for
far-reaching agreement. This will
specify the exact conditions under
which aid will be given and prob
ably will embrace such countries as
Egypt and Palestine.
France also is negotiating with
Turkey and hopes to have a SINH
lar alliance in the near future.
German spokesman made no ef-
fort to conceal their sentiments
against the Turks who fought with
Germany during the World War
Said one Berlin official. mo good
can come of this
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
R0TARIAN5
ARE COMING
TO JUNEAU
First Group Already En-
route with Others ledv-
ing Sunday Midnight

Rotarians are now on the way to
Juneau.
The first group left Anacortes
yesterday aboard the tug Uwanta
of the Robinson Fisheries Company
for this city
The group contains Rotarians
from Anacortes, Sedro-W oolley and
Oak Harbor, in the state of Wash
ington
This group expects to arrive here
in plenty of time for the opening
of the district convention n e x
Thursday.
The main group of Rotarians
however, leave Seattle tomorrow
midnight aboard the steamer Aleu-
tan of the Alaska Steamship Com
pany.
The Aleutian will arrive at Prince
Rupert Tuesday, at Ketchikan We'd
nesday and reach Juneau next
Thursday morning at o'clock, ac-
cording to present schedule.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
HEARING STARTS
OVER CLOSING OF
PORTLAND PORT
Arbifer Wayne Morse Call
ed Into Action by
Longshoremen

PORTLAND, Oregon, May 49,
At the request of longshoremen, the
Pacific Coast Waterfront Contract
Arbiter Wayne L. Morse has opened
hearings ON the controversy which
closed this port Thursday by the
Employers Association after CLIO
longshoremen refused to load the
freighter William Luckenbach be-
cause the order to reinstate three
discharged workers was ignored.
Efforts made yesterday to bring
the warning sides together failed
and the arbiter was called to open
hearings on the controversy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
COAL COMPANIES
SIGN CONTRACTS
FOR UNION SHOP
approximately Three Hun
dred thousand Miners
Go 10 Work Monday

NEW YORK, May l3.-Fifteen Of
the twenty-one bituminous coal as
sociations have signed TIE union
shop contract with John L. Lewis
of the United Mine Workers OF
America.
The signing of the contracts makes
it possible for the miners to return
to work on Monday thus averting a
national coal shortage.
1t is said that approximately 300,-
900 miners will report for work on
Monday.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
FOG DELAYS
ROYAL SHIP
ON ATLANTIC
Liner Will Be One Day Late
in ATiving-NoW in
Iceberg Zone

NEW YORK, May 13.-Fog for the
second day has halted the liner
Empress of Australia bringing the
British King and Queen on visit
to the United States and Canada
according to a radio report received
here.
The liner Is fog bouy5 in the ice
berg zone, $50 miles of East Cape
Race.
The liner will now be at least one
day late in reaching Quebec and the
Royal couple and party will not
land there until Tuesday.
The schedule through the Domin-
ion will be changed to correspond to
the late arrival.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
Yukon River
Ice Moving
0uf,Dawson
Break up Came Friday
Forenoon-Four Win
Prize Of $4,000

DAWSON, VT, May 13.-The ice
in the Yukon River in front of Daw-
son went out at 11:55 o'clock yes
terday morning
The winners in the ice contest,
with a money prize of $4,000 went
to Helen Thompson, Ed Boyce.
Charles Stone, of Dawson, and James
r. Gaudin of Whitehorse.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK INCREASES
STAFF; new MAN

Current press of business at the
First National Bank here has re-
suited in the addition OF another
employee, it was announced today.
Harold Palmer, formerly associ-
ated with the Pacific National Bank
and the Peoples National Bank and
Trust Company in Seattle. became
associated with the First National
here a few days ago.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
BASEBALL TODAY

Scores of baseball games played
this afternoon are as follows:
National League
Brooklyn 3 Boston 5.
Chicago g. Pittsburgh 2.
st. Louis /; Cincinnati 2.
American League
Cleveland S; Chicago 2.
Detroit 3; st. Louis S.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
REAR ADMIRAL
BRISTOL PASSES
AWAY SUDDENLY

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Rear
Admiral Mark L. Bristol, retired,
former High Commissioner of the
United States to Turkey, died I'M
expectedly in the Naval Hospital
here today at the age of II.
Apparently he had recovered from
an operation but his heart just gave
up beating.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
6 HALIBUTER5
SELL SEATTLE

SEATTLE, May l3.--Only hall
buffers from the local banks arrived
and sold here today as follows.
President 1900 pounds, Presha
10000 pounds, Bertha 10000 pounds,
all selling for and cents pound;
Ideal $4,000 pounds, ga and 6 cents;
Spray 1900 pounds, 85s and 6 cents.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
Armed Squads
Invade Danziq
Warsaw Newspaper De-
nounees Any Attempt
10 GET PIebiseife

WARSAW, May Is.-The Wieczor
Warszawski, Nationalist daily news
paper, charges that some 10000 Ger
mans have been added to the popu-
lation of the Free City of Danzig in
IAN invasion of armed squads" The
newspaper denounces any effort by
Germany to resort to a plebiscite
there.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
SEATTLE STATEMENT

SEATTLE May 13.-Dewey Ben
nett, Secretary of the Longshore-
mems local said that negotiations
to obtain 10-cent-an-hour wage
increase for Alaska longshoremen
has been under way for some time
and is still being carried on and
some progress made.
Commenting on the Ketchikan re-
port that strike is threatened Mon
day midnight unless the demands
are met, he said that he doubts if
any strike will be called.
Dewey said the main issue is try
ing to get the companies to extend
the coast agreement to apply to To-
Gals in Alaska. Negotiations in Sc
attic are SO far solely with the
Alaska Steamship Company.
One steamship company official
said the controversy involves solely
Alaska dock operators as none of
the lines own or operate their own
docks and that union agreements
will have to be made with the dock
operators first, then the steamship
companies will fall in line.
LOCAL SITUATION
Harold Knight, Manager of the
H.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
PASSPORT FOR
KUHN HELD UP
BY STATE DEPT
Activities Of Leader Of Ger.
man-AmeriCdn Bund
Under Investigation

WASHINGTON, May 13.-Fritz
Kuhn, leader of the German-Ameri-
can Bund, is said to have been block
ed temporarily in his effort to OBJ
tain a passport from the State De-
partment.
An authoritative source discloses
that passports for Kuhn and two as
sociates are held up pending an in
vestigation into the affairs of the
Bund in New York. Probers are
working on the case, it is asserted.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13

Fourth club enrolment in the
United States included 1,286,029
boys and girls in 74,584 clubs in
1888. a new high record.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-05-13
Longshoremen
Make Den land
10-(ent Raise
Seattle Official of Union
Believes No Wdlkoufs
viii lake Place

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May ID. =
Longshoremen here threaten to
strike at midnight Monday unless
demands for 10 cent an hour in
crease is met and agreement signed,
Local steamship companies were
only informed yesterday of the de-
mands and said negotiations are
being handled in Seattle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28
Postal Service Substitutes
Get Vacations, Sick Leave

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). - The
substitutes of the Postal Service ended
several years of strenuous effort
through the passage, July 10, of bill
extending to them the privileges of
vacation and sick leave enjoyed by
the regular employees.
This legislation will also be of ben
eft to the substitutes by establishing
their status as employees of the Post
office Department. At the present
time, they are in the anomalous posi-
tion of being subject to all the regu-
lations governing regular employees,
including deductions from their scanty
and irregular earnings to support the
Civil Service Retirement Act. At the
same time, they are, by ruling of
the Comptroller General, debarred
from vacations, sick leave and other
privileges extended by statute to the
regular workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28
u. S. TARIFF LAWS
FAVOR DICTATOR
NATIONS, CHARGE

Washington (ILNS). - Matthew
Woll, vice-president of the American
Federation of Labor, charged here
that American mandatory tariff laws
were being contravened in order that
dictator or-controlled nations may ac-
quire war materials from our people
to rob weaker peoples of their land"
VOLTS charge was contained in a
letter to Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau, in which the A. F. of L.
president asked imposition of
countervailing tariff duties on i'm
ports of goods manufactured by
Japan.
His protest was made as head of the
Americas Wage Farmers Protective
Conference, an organization composed
of group of A. F. of L. unions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28

man introduced a bill
Providing a pension for retiring"
members of Congress
To keep them from going hungry
when they go flame duck"-
Making no provision, however
For any 13O hours of service a
month
They did not call it "relief''-
i
There's a lot of soldiers in Wash
ington-
Nor are they all in Fort Myer, or
at the Marine Barracks
About 500 of them are stationed at
the Capitol
They elect their own officers
Decide on their own rations and
equipment
Fix their own rate of pay, and GO
after the funds to pay it
Quite a governing corps of
soldiers they are
Carefully selected, after examina-
tion by constituencies
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28
Rate OF Farm Wages
Lowest In Three Years

Washington, D. G. (ILNS).-Wage
rates to agricultural workers in
creased slightly less than usual dur
ing the April-June quarter this year,
and the July wage index was the low
est for the month in three years, the
Agricultural Marketing Service of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture said
in it's monthly report on farm en-
ployment. At 1875 per cent of pre-
war, the July / wage level was 5
points higher than on April 1, but 3
points lower than on July 1, 1888.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28
TO INVESTIGATE
LABOR BOARD

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Con-
servative Democrats and Republicans
joined to vote a special House inves-
tigation of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, through a special five
man committee. The vote for the in
vestigation was 253 to 1876.
The investigation was sponsored
by Rep. Howard w. Smith of Vir-
ginia and was fought by members of
the labor committee which for 10
weeks has been holding hearings on
Wagner Act amendments.
Rep. Vito Marcantonio said the in
vestigation ''is the product of the
same coalition of reactionaries that
has ruled this House since the start
of this session" and twill destroy the
magma charta of laboring people,"
Rep. Richard Welch, member of the
labor committee, declared the inves-
tigation was an "idle act" and "a re-
Election on the integrity and sincerity
of a hard-working legislative com
mittee."
Rep. Robert Ramspeck said he was
not opposed to an investigation OF
the board, but that Smiths plan was
"a waste of money, and throws away
the efforts of the labor committee
Rep. Reuben t. Wood also opposed
the resolution.
Rep. Adolph j. SABBATH warned the
House that if it adopted Smiths pro
posal it would set "a precedent thai
will return to plague the House" He
said similar resolutions aimed at Other
committees might be expected tx
follow.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28
AUTO DEATH RATE
DOWN LAST YEAR

Washington, D. G. (ILNS). 80 The
nations death rate from automobile
accidents dropped sharply in 1888, pre-
liminary census figures show. Motor
vehicles killed 32,428 persons, or 24.9
per 100000.
The 39,643 deaths in 1887 were a
record high, averaging 30.7 per 100,-
900. Nevada had the highest death
rate with 65.3, and Rhode Island had
the lowest with 1872.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28

Charged with special duties and re-
sponsibilities-
Responsible to no one, except at
two-year intervals
For part of them the term of serv-
ice is six years
They have no drills, very little dis
cipline-
Setting-up exercises are done only
at place of enlistment
But can they soldier!
These soldiers take an oath OF
service
About the Constitution, and al
that
Supposed to be picked for intelli.
gence, and character
One of them was accused of having
$4,000 reasons
For introducing and promoting g
bill for his friends
1t had something to do with speci.
fications for asphalt
Connected with public works jobs
of paving
When he was challenged about the
matter
He threatened to resign from some
thing or other
But his friends smoothed him down
and he relaxed
1t would give the whole army q
black eye, maybe two black eyes
An asphalt black eye being much
the same in politics
AS a steel black eye, or a cement
black eye
Or one acquired from contact with
lumber
1t is suspected that black eyes are
also associated with milk
Anyhow, it turned out to be a fam
lily matter
So, it was put in the closet, along
With Other Skeletons
But about those pensions
And the reserves of wealth making
them possible
Pensions for these soldiers woulc
really obligate them more
But would they still soldier?
Some of these soldiers claim that
men son relief" soldier
Instead of giving real days
work
Knowing how them themselves fee
about work
When they get $4,000 year anc
expenses of travel
They are suspicious of other mer
who might get real income
If this nations wealth were sc
managed
That every worker would get 9
proper return
While every worker would have as,
surance of a job
y
Of course, there's more to de-
mocraey-
Than the antics of these little carl
catures of statesman
But they are making a laughing
stock of f-government-
A lot of Americans, young anC
old
Are beginning to wonder just what
ought to be done about it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-28

Agree with the President. There is
always the danger of that internal
fireside chat.
Agree that maybe wholesale proc
essing of agricultural products should
fall within the reach of the act-but
in the interests Of economy mo more
appropriations for the enforcement of
the act.'
That would set everything right.
That the act would be enforced, there
is the solemn word of promise-Cox
and the employers promise.