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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
COMMANDER THOMPSON
ARRIVES HERE TO OPEN
new FED. HEADQUARTERS

Commander w. K. Thompson, 81
years an officer in the United
States Coast Guard, arrived in Jul
neau aboard the North Coast this
morning to assume his newly Gre
ated position as head of the COM
bined Coast Guard and Lighthouse
Service in Alaska.
With him was c. W. Warmker,
Chief Pay Clerk from the cutter
Ingham, which was Thompson's re-
cent command.
Thompson said temporary quar-
tiers of the new offices will be in
the Baranof Hotel until more ade-
quate arrangements are made"
AS to the extent of the new office
duties, Thompson said he was more
or less in the dark
ut will take us some time to get
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Key Witness Of Govern
ment in Deportation
Charges, on Stand
IDENTIFIES AFFIDAVIT
HE PREVIOUSLY MADE
World War Veteran Tells
of Plot He Heard
Discussed Often

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July H..
Late yesterday afternoon, Harry
Bridges, CLIO chieftain on the Pa
cific Coast, was described as a
very able member of the Com
munist Party" by witness called
by the United States Government,
who identified himself as Major
Laurence A. Miner.
Miner said he was a World War
veteran and a retired officer of
the Oregon National Guard Re-
serves.
He identified as his, an affidavit
given in Portland on September
%, 1887, in which he named Bridges
as a Communist, and asserted that
as a confidential Oregon Guard
he associated with Communists for
more than four years and on sew
eral occasions accompanied Bridges
to Communist Party meetings.
Hears of Plot
Today, Miner, said to be the key
witness in the Labor Department S
deportation hearing against Bridg-
es, testified he heard of Com
munist revolution plot described
in many speeches and converse
tons" of Communist leaders in the
Pacific Northwest
They spoke of building up an
organization of labor unions and
causing labor strikes, then perhaps,
in case of war, taking advantage
of the situation by force and NO.
lence," testified Miner.
Seattle Man Named
Under cross examination by At
torney Audrey Grossman, OF
Bridges defense counsel, Miner
said Morris Rapport, OF Seattle,
an alien under deportation orders,
was one of the speakers referred
to.
Miner declared that Rapport
discussed a program of seizing
factories, etc., when the Com
munist instruction came.
"Rapport's spread of flowery
program for Communists appealed
10 members of the Communist
Party" said Miner.
Communications with Angel Is
kand, scene of the Bridges hearing
was disrupted for a time today
when the anchor of a Japanese
ship, the Atu Tsan Maru, broke
the telephone and telegraph cables
when it was dropped into San
Francisco Bay. 1t took several hours
to make repairs
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
Union Blocks
Proposed Line
5eaftIe-0rieni
Sailors Take Vote : Turn
Down Hiring Of Crews
from u. 5. Office :

SEATTLE, July Ill. L. Bates.
Manager of the Pacific Northwest
Oriental Line, announced that he
has been informed that the vote
of the Sailors Union of the Pacific
is not favorable to compromise
in the hiring hall controversy. AS
the result of this action, the Or
iental Line is doomed before a ship
has sailed.
The Maritime Commission re-
Gently ultimatumed the union must
accept the plan that crews would
be hired from the United States
Shipping Commissions lists by
Tuesday noon or the contract TO
provide the proposed line from Sc
attic to the Orient, would be re-
voked, effective August IL.
The liner Coldbrook Satartia has
been tied up here for several weeks
and two other ships are held in
allegiance on the East Coast pending
the outcome.
Inc proposed line would re-es-
tablish the American Flag to the
service between Seattle and the Or
lent.
Union officials have not an
nolmced the result of the vote and
make no comment on the situation.
CONTRACT CANCELLED
WASHINGTON, July IL. The
Maritime Commission this after
noon cancelled the contract for
the Pacific Northwest Oriental lines
under which ii was intended TO
operate a steamship service be-
tween Puget Sound and the Far
East.
The Commission has notified the
company that operations are inn
possible because of the refusal of
the members of the Sailors Union
Of the Pacific to register for en-
ployment with the United States
Shipping Commissioner at Seattle
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ers and bootleggers came to fear
and hate him.
In 1923 McReynolds took his seat
in the national legislature. Two
years later he was assigned TO the
important Foreign Affairs Commit
tee and became Chairman in De-
cember, 1882, upon the death of
J. Charles Linthicum of Maryland.
Neutrality Bill Fighter
Among the many comm t c e
measures fought through the House
by McReynolds we're the neutrality
bill of 1885 and the subsequent
measure which modified and ex-
tended it.
In 1888 he went as a member OF
the American delegation to the
world economic conference at Lon
don. He won praise then from JOS
eph w. Byrns, Democratic floor
leader, a fellow Tennesseean and
later Speaker of the House, who
said: Sam is probably the best
equipped man in the House to rep
resent this country at London"
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac S.
McReynolds, he was born near Pike
vile, Bledsoe County, Tennessee,
April Is, 1872. On March 9, 1910.
he married Miss Mary c. Daven-
port. A daughter was born to them.
Tennessee Twins"
During his Washington years Nc
Reynolds was a close friend of
Cordell Hull, Senator for Tennessee
and later Secretary of State. They
we're together so often they became
known as "the Tennessee twins
Both we're born on Tennessee
farms and both went from the
bench to seats in Congress. Both
were quiet, reserved, studious.
Among his associates McReynolds
had reputation for great courage
and honesty. He never scratched
ticket or violated the ethics Of
his church or profession" they said
of him. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
AS youth McReynolds studied
in the schools of his native county
and then entered Peoples College
at Pikeville. later studying at Cum
berland University, from which he
received his B. A. He read law in
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
IS
NAMED FOR
new OFFICE
President Nominafes Indi-
ana Man as Federal
Security Adm.

WASHINGTON, July 11.--As
exclusively announced by the
Associated Press as certain to
come, President Roosevelt today
nominated Paul McNutt TO be
Federal Security Administrator.
McNutt is now American
High Commissioner of the Phil
ippines. He indicated he will re-
tain his present post for several
weeks to clear up details of
his Commissionership.
The nomination, if confirmed
by the Senate, will bring into
the Administration a Democrat
whose candidacy for President
in 1910 had been openly advO-
Gated by his friends.
Whether President Roosevelt
is giving McNutt a boost toward
the Democratic nomination of
President or whether he is
providing him with chance
to show what he can do, is an
argued point today.
The former Governor of In
diana will head one of the
three new agencies created un-
der the plan CT reorganization
of the Government and will
give him control of the Secur-
ity Board, CCC, National Youth
Administration, and 9th er
agencies.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
World Wheat
Prices Down
ToLow Level
Prospects for Huge Sur
plus for July Delivery
Causes Big Drop


CHICAGO, Ill, July II. The
world wheat prices today hit the
lowest levels for SO early in the
season during the last six or eight
years.
The prospects are for huge sur
plus July delivery. Prices today
are 65H cents as compared with
II cents last year and $130 two
years ago and 46% cents in 1882
Prices are expected to go still
lower.
Prospects are that production on
the Northern Hemisphere will be
3,53OOOO,0O bushels this year.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
FIREWORKS MAY NOW BE IN
CHINA But DANzIG'S JUST
The SPOT TO KEEP EYE ON
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, July IL. = Even
while the headlines played or TENT
sin and the diplomatic strip tease,
State Department observers watched
Danzig. 1t has been the real trouble
spot.
japanese sentries stripping men
and women of the British colony
in Tientsin stir up the kind of hat
reds that were aroused in America
by Spanish atrocities in 1898. Yet
the opinion generally held here is
that war will not grow out of the
Tientsin business unless there is
some event such as the sinking
of the Maine" And both sides are
guarding carefully against that.
Neither Japan nor England wants
war in the Orient. Japan could gain
little from it and England nothing
at all.
In Europe the situation, as viewed
here, has held ten times as much
danger of real trouble, all along.
A competent source tells us that
advices from inside Germany sup
ported the occasional stories ind1-
eating that the Hitler regime is
again confronted by serious inter-
nal difficulties. Each time a "cri-
sis" came up in the past an agrees
sive program was possible that di-
verted public attention from heavy
internal burdens.
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organized" Thompson said. 1--WE
haven't a typewriter, even"
Lighthouse Service Plans
AS to the Lighthouse Service
headquarters at Ketchikan being
moved to Juneau, c o m m n d +
Thompson said 1T is likely the
administrative offices only will be
moved here, with the supply depot
to remain at Ketchikan where the
service has admirable docking ia
cilities."
Commander Thompson entered
the Coast Guard as cadet in 1906
when the Coast Guard Academy
was at Baltimore, Md. He was
commissioned an ensign December
%. 1903, and had the unusual dis
tinction of being promoted to the
f.rl
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
LEGION, AUXILIARY
PLAN SALMON BAKE
AT SKATERS CABIN

A salmon bake for members of
Afford John Bradford Post of the
American Legion and the Auxili-
airy is being planned for late this
week or early next week by Post
Commander Bert Lybeck.
The Post has in cold storage a
dozen salmon caught last week by
a plane load of visiting Indianapo-
lis Legionnaires. The picnic prob
ably will be held at the skaters
cabin, Lybeck said today.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
Diplomats Believe Defin-
tie Stand Of British
Stops trouble
GERMANS, HOWEVER,
ARE STILL DEFIANT
Declare Situation Became
More MuddIed, Ndzi
Statement

Europe's hopes for peaceful solu-
ton of the menacing Free City OF
Danzig situation grew today on the
strength of British Prime Minister
Chamberlain's stand on the Inter-
national situation.
Prime Minister Chamberlain said
emphatically yesterday that If ag-
gression on Danzig took place, Great
Britain would aid Poland and war
would be the result. 1t was taken
that he meant just what he said.
that if Germany grabbed Danzig
it would Immediately bring Great
Britain to Poland,s side.
There are some advances made
that Germany take over Danzig
provided the section would be de-
militarized and also assure Poland
of free use of the vistula river port.
Berlin statements are that Great
Britain has only served to muddle
the atmosphere rather than clear
1t.
Far East Situation
The Far East situation also sprang
into the limelight today with a pro-
nounced bang when Russia emphat-
ically warned Japan to keep her
hands off Outer Mongolia where
intermitten warfare has been going
on since May IL.
The Russian statement says that
"insolent raids and Japanese pro-
vocatuers will end in war"
Dispatches from Tokyo indicate
that the Japanese are holding their
positions as are the Soviet Outer
Mongolians.
There is report that there was
a heavy artillery and aerial warfare
yesterday on the Manchuokouan
side of the Chalka river.
Another Disput eCenter
Dispatches from Rome state that
Is Frenchmen and at least one
Briton are reported to have re-
ceived orders to leave Bolzano Pro-
vince, Italian Tyrol, Immediately.
Many others have left the section,
presumably under orders, and also
to beat the italian Governments
deadline for withdrawal of foreign
ers from the frontier areas bor-
dering Germany.
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; HALIBUTER5
Sell, SEATTLE

SEATTLE, July 11.-Only hall
buffers from the local banks sold
on the Seattle Fish Exchange today
as follows:
Antler $4,000 pounds, Mermaid
$4,000 pounds, at 79s and ia
cents; Eleanora 10000 pounds 7la
and 7A cents.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
LUMBER STRIKE
IS COMPROMISED

LOS ANGELES, CAL, July IL
The four week-old Los Angeles lum-
her strike neared settlement today
when uion officials and employers
reached a compromise agreement.
The workers are scheduled to return
to their jobs with four percent pay
increase.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
POLITICIAN IS
FOUND GUILTY

LOS ANGELES, Cal, July H.
A prominent Los Angeles politician,
Carl Pustau has been convicted Of
perjury in connection with county
lobbying scandal He now faces a
possible ten-year sentence. He was
a key figure in the Col. William
Nebletts million dollar libel suit.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
R. (. De WITT
IS IMPROVING

r. E. Dewitt, Alaska Juneau mill
employee who was injured last Sat
urday while at work, is reported to
be much improved today.
De Witt. who is at st. AIMS Hos
pital receiving care for a fractured
left arm and leg, has been resting
easily and responding satisfactorily
to treatment. DR. william p. Blan-
ton is the attending physiciac.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
WpA STRIKE
RIOT CAUSE
OF / DEATH
Policeman Beaten Severe
IY in Minneapolis Wage
Cut Is Responsible

MINNEAPOLIS MINI, July IL.
-Patrolmon John Gearty. 40. died
yesterday afternoon in a hospital
as the result of a pummeling re-
ceived during a WPA strike riot
when he attempted TO rescue q
nonstriking worker on sewer pro-
ject.
1t is estimated that 1000 meleed
in the streets. blocking trolley traf-
fic.
Police and workers were pelted
with rocks and broken glass by the
rioters.
A physician said Gearty died as
the result OF heart strain.
The police finally restored order
and the strikers were routed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
SINISTER REMEDIES

There is nothing sinister about
these internal difficulties, although
the Hitler government on occasion
has met them by sinister methods.
But the difficulties are the same
as confronted here and in other
nations in far less degree. Debts
grow and armament expenditures
mount and the tax revenues are not
what they are supposed to be.
Germany is having trouble rails
ing money to. finance her con-
tinued rearmament and her peri
odic notifications. Siegfried lines
are not built for nothing. 1t is
known that Germany already is
spending taxes not yet collected.
She is simply issuing tax IOU's to
continue the expenditure that keeps
her factories booming. Floating OF
government bond issues, SO easy
here, is far from easy in Germany.
AS long as there is something
which can be presented to the peo-
pie of Germany to justify expenses.
the element of discomfort present
in every country. is inactive. Elk
pansion of Germany to include
neighboring German territory al
ways has been a justification and
can be again in the case of DAN
zig.
Meantime German officials are
playing the ace card of "encircle-
ment" by the enemy, always a
goad to rouse Teutonic blood. The
threat of "encirclement" is as mem
acing to a German as violation of
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STRIKERS FIGHT


PONTIAC, Mich, July 11.-Fight-
ing broke out this morning In front
of General Motors Pontiac plant,
where several hundred skilled work.
ers are striking.
A car window was broken during
the fight but there were no serious
injuries.
Police arrested six men.
The strike effects ten plants OF
General Motors in Pontiac, Cleve-
land, Detroit and Saginaw. The
Pontiac plant has been closed by
corporation officials.
A 100000 beet sugar factory Is
sala ynnd OF yLTffaf1
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FAMILY ARRIVES

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Molyneux and
daughter arrived in Juneau on the
Columbia. Molyneux is representa-
tive of Swift and Company. They
are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11
FOUR BILLS APPEAR

WASHINGTON, July IL. -Four
bills have appeared in Congress
restoring the former WPA basis
and removal of all legislation which
has caused rash strikes and dem
onstrations Of workers all over the
nation.
The Alliance of WPA officials
differ as to the number of strikes
and whether a back-to-work move
ment Is under way.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-11

A $1,800,000 beet sugar factory is
planned at Winnipeg.
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Evening star., 1939-06-27

down, butted down or kicked
down-just so he hits the deck.
Nate Lewis, Chicago fight man.
ager, has bet 10 bucks at Is to /
Louis doesn't come out for the
third round.
Saved the show. The man who
really saved the fight from be-
coming hoperoo from Flopers-
vile is Coach Joe Jacobs. He
had an angle for every angler
and an angler for every angle.
He did it with his little gimmick.
Galento's sparring partners get
$40 per day and their keep, rain
or shine. Louis pays his SIS per
round, but they are docked when
Joe doesn't work and not all of
them are used every day. Louis
mother sees every drill and
winches whenever stooge lands
a punch, no matter how light.
Joe Jacobs was for soaking the
fans a buck per head for work.
outs. Galento wanted to let all
hands in free. So they COM
promised on SIS cents. So for
four bits (plus nickel taxi you
could see Tony and Abe Feldman
put up much better fight than
they did at Miami four months
ago, when ringside pews were
$3.50 copy.
Louis is worth a cool half
million in cashable assets. Five
years ago he said: IF + ever get
anywhere near half a million, I'll
quit fighting and buy q drug
Evening star., 1939-06-27
100000 Cate
Or Better Now
Is Expected
Suved From Beina
Flop by GoIento's
Tricky Manager
BY GAYLE TALBOT.
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, June 27.-The Louis
Galento championship fight, which
loomed as a financial fop a week
ago, has caught on amazingly right
here at the last and now looks AZ If
1t might attract better than $4OO, 900
worth Of paying customers to Yam
kee Stadium tomorrow night.
True, that's a puny purse COM
pared to the fantastic sums Pro-
moter Tex Rickard used to split up
back in another and dizzier era, bu:
it still is lot of money considering
the fact that this fight has been
tabled one-sided from the moment
OF its inception. 1t approaches 4
miracle when you stop to think that
not one established boxing authority
has fatty predicted victory for Ga
lento over the champion.
"Gimmick" Yarn Is Beginner.
Much of the credit for this last
minute interest belongs to Joe CYus-
seD Jamobs, the manager of rotund
Tony, who has performed some as
tonishing mental f1ip-fops in the
past fortnight, starting with his help
that Louis operated upon Max
Schmeling with a "gimmick" last
| fall.
Some of Joe's other stunts. includ-
ing his cocktail party" in honor of
Louis the other day, haven't made
any particular sense. Even his vio-
lent assertion of last week that the
boxing expert were uniformly
stupid in picking Joe. Louis to win
didn't necessarily make Galento's
chances against the champion any
brighter.
But Joe has accomplished his pur-
pose. He has breathed some life into
an affair that threatened to die on
its feet. His purple-faced insistence
that Tony will wade into Louis
tomorrow night and knock him loose
from his crown has at least set the
populace to wondering. Sufficient Of
them have placed bets on Tony on
the past week to reduce the odds
against him from 9 to l to s to /.
Experts Haven't Changed.
The concensus of score of news
paper observers who watched Louis
do his last light boxing yesterday
was that Joe would win by knock
out inside three rounds. Some
thought it would end within a
round; others guessed as high as
| five heats.
The big, almond-colored Negro
appears to be in perfect condition.
He expects to weigh 202 pounds at
the official scaling tomorrow noon,
That's a couple of pounds more than
ne weighed fore his last fight with
Schmeling. Galento will carry an
advantage of close to 80 pounds In
weight, but he is some 5 inches
shorter than Louis and his arms are
much stubbier.
Both men completed training
without suffering any cuts, much to
the relief of Promoter Mike Jacobs.
My guess is that tomorrow nights
bout will end that way, with Tony
CORY and reeling but not down.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
Precedent Is BACKING
Krieger in Hostak
Battle Tonight
No Middle Hos Reeoined
Title From Champion
Since KetcheII Did 1t
BY the Associated Press.

SEATTLE, June 27.-Al Hostak of
Seattle was 10-7 favorite today to
do something no middleWeight has
accomplished since Stanley Ketchel
regain possession of the once-lost
middleweight championship.
Hostak lost his crown to the rough
and rugged Solly Krieger of Brook
lyn last November l after ruling the
National Boxing Association top
middleweight roost three months
and four days.
Tonight Hostak gets his return
crack at the title with Krieger, and
intense hometown favoritism has
made the urly-headed young Slav
the favorite.
Ketchel, hailed by old-timers as
the greatest middleweight of them
all, lost his title in 1907 and re-
gained it the following year from
the man who took it from him
Billy Papke.
Hostak and Krieger were to weigh
in early this afternoon, with the
former expected to scale around
1882 and Krieger just under the
wire at 160.
Promoter Nate Druxman said the
15-round title affair would 60 on
around 9 or 10 o'clock tonight"
Pacific time), probably depending
on weather conditions. The weather.
man predicted rain. Druxman said
he expected Is 1000 persons would pay
around $4,000 to see the scrap.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
RosenbIoom Too Good
In Kayo Of Ettore,
Ring Body Feels
Boxers Purses Held Up
After SIops to Foce
End Bout in Third

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 27.-Fight
purses of Make Rosenbloom and AL
Ettore were held up today, and the
California Athletic Commission pre-
pared to investigate Slapsie Make S
alleged three-round knockout of the
Philadelphian on last nights boxing
card.
The show attracted 10000 spec
tators and $4,000, but it was some
thing of an artistic fopperoo, and
almost every one agreed it was Just
as we'll the Rosenbloom- -Ettere affair
was held outdoors.
Ettore, who stood up for five
rounds against Joe Louis punching,
drifted to the canvas twice in the
second round from vicious slaps to
the face and three times in the
third from the same type of blow.
Evening star., 1939-06-27
The Barrel Doesn't Knock EN- Dead

still sticking
dusous but Baltimore Red Burman whipped
Gaento Neither Braddock
Schmeing Sharkey
desperate
that Gaeno talk about decision
have fought professionally since 1925
Still
either
Marty
For the sake of let that Ganto hits
probably will sod. Fighters
before alento before Somehow
the head figures He able
knockdow
that Gaento puncher
fellows
Towns the opening