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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
REDHEAD GOT A JOB THAT
STARTED RUM0RS, RESULT:
INVESTIGATION IS BEGUN
BY PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON. April 10. = Con-
gress is discovering that pretty
face and soft voice not only turn
eth away wrath but snareth nice
promotions in the Civil Service.
Congress probably suspected it all
the time. But they have been told
officially now in one of those buck
aroo proceedings Senate investi-
cation. The investigation began
after a strange old rumor reached
the ears of Senator Ellender OF
Louisiana. 1t was that some place
in the Navy Department was bu-
reau which hired only redheads.
That rumor has been around
here probably as long as the red
head fad Cor dare we call it fadD
Once we went over to the Navy De-
partment to look into this matter
We weren't trying to vindicate the
Navy Department. We were trying
to find the redheads.
We remember checking off a
couple, but CAD, sir that was very
poor percentage among hundreds.
Even these two were not in the
same bureau Maybe the redheads
are Navy secret. We don't know
We didn't get in on it.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
DAN ROOSEVELT
AND FRIEND GO
TO AIR DEATHS
Newspdpermdn's Daugh.
ter Is Injjured-Crdsh
in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, April 19.-Daniel
S. Roosevelt, nephew OF President
Roosevelt's wife, and Peter Rumsey
grandson Of e. H. Hartman, rail-
road builder were killed in plane
crash near Guadalupe, in the state
of Victoria Puebla today
A third passenger, Carlotta Con-
stantine, daughter Of an American
newspaperman. suffered a broken
arm and leg in the crash.
Both OF the young men, Harvard
students, were returning 10 the Uni
ted States after mentioning in Mex
leo with a private plane.
Daniel Roosevelt's father Is G..
Hall Roosevelt.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
CANNERY CARGO
IS STILL ABOARD
ALASKA VESSEL
Pi1kefing al Kefthika n
Prevents Unloading of
Cans, Equipment

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 49,
Steamer Tongass, with 80 tons OF
empty cans and small amount OF
cannery equipment aboard for this
port. continued north last night
without unloading the cannery cargo
after the Maritime Federation OF
the Pacific unionists, acting upon
orders from Seattle established a
picket line on the water and on
land around the~ Balcom-Payne
Fisheries dock.
The cargo was authorized taken
aboard at Seattle with an agreement
it would not be discharged until the
labor strike was settled. No effort was
made to unload the cargo.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
Fifteen Million Dollar Craft
Quilted by Blaze, Lists
and then Sinks
FOREIGN ENEMIES
ARE UNDER SUSPICION
One Italian Doekworker Is
Quesfioned-U. 5. Air.
planes Are Saved

HAVRE, France, April 19.-Liner
Paris. $l5000,000 vessel, once the
flagship of the French merchant
fleet keeled over and settled in Sc
feet of water burned through by a
fire which Leon Meyer, former Min
lister of Merchant Marine, suspects
was set by foreign saboteurs. His
view is held by other French offic-
ials.
One italian dockworker is held
for questioning.
Two men were killed and two
others injured in the night long fire.
Intense heat kept the firemen at a
distance, unable to control the raw
age.
Firemen said the flames scared
from two widely separated parts of
the ship, one point, behind locked
doors. The firemen claim one blaze
started in the ships bakery and the
other in the barber shop, two decks
above the bakery.
A shipment of 10 warplanes, made
in the United States for the French
Army. was taken off only an hour be-
fore the ship caught fire.
Only one case of half a million
dollar shipment of art treasures,
consigned to the New York Worlds
Fair, is found to have been damaged
Two million dollars worth of jewels
were saved.
The Paris was due to sail late to-
day with hundreds of passengers, in
Guiding Americans. fleeing from war
scares in troubled Europe.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
Rumors Circulating as 10
What Might Occur To-
morrow in Europe
CHANCELLOR IS TO
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY
Two-Day Observance Will
Take PIdle-World and
Politics Forgotten

BERLIN, April 19.-Germany To-
day relegated the world and STIR
ring politics to the background and
turned attention to the two day
birthday celebration of its leader.
While official sources emphati-
cally deny the Free City Of Dam
zig will be handed to Hitler as a pre-
sent on his so Birthday tomorrow,
columns are printed about the pro-
bable action of Poland as well as
the birthday preparations and all
other news is crowded out OF The
German newspapers.
Chancellor Hitler returned yester-
day. ending a To-day vacation.
The Chancellor's first act was to
name the almost forgotten Franz
Won Papen as the Reich's new am
bassador to Turkey.
Official sources also assert that
the Lufthansa, German commercial
airline, has succeeded, after 10 years
patient endeavor, in obtaining the
exclusive concession for CONNER
cial air service to Turkey.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
Foreign Secretary Halifax
Makes ContiIiafory
Speech in Lords
SUPPLY DEPARTMENT
SPEEDS REARMAMENT
DiCfafors Offered Solemn
Pledge London Policy
Not Sfrangling

LONDON, April 19.-Foreign Sec
rotary Viscount Halifax today Of
fered assurance that Britain is not
attempting a policy of "encircle-
ment."
In a move to cope with Europe's
troubled situation, he said in a
conciliatory speech in the Housee of
Lords:
LAS to the cry of enforcement I'd
be prepared at any time to give
most solemn undertaking on the
authority of the Government that
no such idea would ever find a place
in British policy
Authoritative reports said the Cab
met had decided to establish sup
ply department to coordinate collec-
ton of material for Britain's huge
rearmament program.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
Moscow Sees
Peace Plans
With Favor
High Newspaper Praises
Dual Moves Of Great
Britain and France

MOSCOW, April 19.-Indications
of a more benevolent attitude OF
Moscow toward the British and
French foreign policy was seen to-
day in an editorial in the high
placed LIE Journal de Moscow.
The paper is French tongue
publication. The editorial warmly
praised President Roosevelt's non
aggression appeal 10 Germany and
Italy.
The Journal, which frequently
speaks the attitude of the Foreign
Office, even conceded that recent
British French moves to guarantee
against any aggressions of the Rome
Berlin axis are steps in the right dir
ection.
with characteristic clarity and
frankness, President Roosevelt sum
med up the International situation
and has drawn the conclusions that
the situation demands" the Journal
said.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
HungaryNow
United With
Rome Berlin
Il Dute Toasts Join
Strength for Defense
and Pedle"

ROME, April 19.-Italy, maneuv-
ering with Germany for position in
the current European crisis, APP
peared today to have bound Hun
gary firmly to the Rome-Berlin axis
Hungarian Premier Count Pau
Teleky, in an after dinner toast to
Mussolini, declared his country as
faithful to the policy of the axis
which Hungary spontaneously adopt
ed"
II Duce, in a similar speech, reaf-
firmed the friendship which uni
ted the strength of each country in
defense in order to thereby better
preserve peace"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
SOFT VOICES HEL?

But Ellender (not a redhead but
a black haired southerner with
mayhap a trace of French in his
ancestry would not be put off.
He went to bat to determine
whether Interior influences like red
heads could win promotion through
the sacrosanct avenues of the Civil
Service.
One witness said she had been
passed over by gal with a peach
bloom voice.
Here" says Ellender, "a girl got
a job because over the telephone
she would be more courteous to
Senators and Congressman"
Il am sure that you will recog-
nize that as very important" smil-
ingly responded youngish John j.
Corson, director of the Old Age
Insurance Bureau. Ellender sort of
huffed
1t is a fact. though, that tele-
phone voices go big in the Govern
ment.
At the hearing Ellender galloped
widely in all directions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
HERRING ON WAY
OUT AT AUX BAY

AUX Bay is experiencing the first
of the herring run, according to
reports from the road, but the large
fish have not showed as yet.
Martin Hoist, on the herring seiner
Wilson, closed the pound the other
day to prevent entrance of small
herring that precede the larger
bloaters.
The big herring should arrive to-
night or tomorrow, according to
experienced fishermen--a land behind
those larger herring win be the King
salmon, initiating a summer Of strip
fishing for sports enthusiasts.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
CHAMBER AND
ROTARY JOIN
FOR MEETING
Motion Pictures Are 10 Be
Shown al Tomorrow's
Luncheon

Motion pictures Of Juneau and
Alaska whcih have been shown be-
fore Rotary Clubs throughout the
Western States as promotion for the
10lst district conference which is
to be held here in May will be shown
before the home club tomorrow by
A. B. Phillips, Convention Chair
man.
Rotarians are meeting tomorrow
noon in joint session with the Ju-
neau Chamber of Commerce at the
Baranof Hotel,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
HARNESS HORSES

PINEHURST, ~ G. April 49,
Pinehurst claims to be the most pop
ulated harness-horse winter-train-
ing center One hundred and eleven
horses are quartered here, a dozen
more than in the second most pop
ular spot, Longwood, Florida,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
STocK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, April 19-Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is ~, American Can
865k, American Power and Light
Az, Anaconda 23ss, Bethlehem
Steel 557s, Commonwealth and
Southern IL, General Motors 40k
International Harvester 55. Kenne-
colt 300, New York Central IA
Northern Pacific 8as, Southern Pa
cific 1914, United States Steel 47A,
Pound S467%
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
WENDELL TO
GO TO SPAIN
virginian Will Be Repre-
sentative Of u. s. 10
New Government

WASHINGTON. April 19.--Alex-
ander Weddell, of Virginia, has been
nominated by President Roosevelt
to be Ambassador to the new Gov
eminent of Spain. He is now Am
basador TO Argentina and succeeds
Claude Bowers who was called home
to give the inside on the situation
in Spain and will remain here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
Joe ARCHIBALD
new CHAMPION,
FEATHER CLASS
Goes Fifteen Rounds with
Leo Kodak 10 Get De-
Cision-DuII Fight

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island,
April 19.-Joe Archibald, 1884
FOUNDER, of this city. took the fea-
therweight championship decision
ever Leo Kodak, l25 FOUNDER, OF
Chicago, last night
1t was a close and dull fight all
even, to the fifteenth round.
Archibald takes the title disput-
ed since Henry Armstrong vacated
it.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
ANOTHER TIME, MAYBE

CHATHAM, Ont. = Imagine a
Chathamite's joy when he read an
Irish Sweepstakes ticket on the
Grand National had been drawn
under his pseudonym, This Time. "
But the winning This Time was
from some other city.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
WirepIants
tkef(|1ikan
Are0pened
Operations Are Permitted
but No Shipments
10 Be Made

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 49,
Two Ketchikan wire factories re-
opened this morning following
agreements with the Maritime Fed
Grafton of the Pacific The agree
ments permit of operations of the
plants but prevents shipments of
wire netting to canneries until the
coastwise disputes are settled.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
EDITH LINDEGAARD
RETURNS TO SITkA

Edith Lindegaard. former Juneau
girl, returned to her home in Sit
ka ON the Northland last night after
a few days visit with her sister
here Mrs Kenyon Mclean
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
DOW. JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow
Jones averages: Industrials 127.0l
rails 1858, utilities 22.06.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19

A 1899 survey indicated the larg-
est supply of feed grains and hay
per animal in the United States in
more than ten years.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-04-19
QUITE A FEW CASES

There is some working agency
which selects these people, from
some other department event, to
give them the better jobs. These
transfers have been made with the
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Guord to Participate
In Parade and Review

Participation of the District Ma
tional Guard in the annual Army
Day parade on Thursday, April 6,
and in a special review for mem
bers Of several congressional COM
mittees on Tuesday, April II, was
announced today by Brig. Gen. Al
bert l.. Cox, commander of the
guard.
Plans for the review call for it
to be held at 8 pm. on the latter
date on the Mall between Fourth
and Sixth streets NV. Taking
part will be more than a thousand
officers and men of the 12lst En-
gineers, 260th Anti-aircraft Regi-
ment, 1st Battalion Of the 10th
Quartermaster Regiment, 29th Di-
vision Special Troops and Com
pany A, 372d Infantry.
Gen. Cox has rendered to Edgar
Morris, general chairman of the
Cherry Blossom Committee, the
services Of a group of guard on
GERS as aides to receive distin-
guished guests at the reviewing
stand for the cherry blossom pa
geant on the Potomac Park polo
field on Friday, March 81.
Evening star., 1939-03-23

cans, could put through the pas
sage Of q tax revision bill. Then,
If Mr.. Roosevelt vetoed such q
measure, the Democratic party
might as well forfeit the 1910 elec-
tions.
Tax May Split Party.
It will be recalled that this very
strategy exercised by the Demo-
cratic minority in coalition with
Western insurgent Republicans
back in 1910 and 1911 gave President
Taft bill after bill which he found
himself compelled to veto. These
were called the "popgun" tariff
bills, and they helped to swing the
Nation behind the Democratic party
in 1912, as the Republican party
was split wide open. It isn't the
tariff this time, which was in 1912
related to the "cost of living" but
the tax issue, which nowadays is
closely associated with business re-
covery, which may split a major
party asunder. For the Democratic
party may be digging its own politi-
cal grave aided and abetted by the
misunderstanding of the whole situ-
alton and jockeying which has
arisen as between the President and
the leaders Of his own party In the
Senate and the House.
(copyrisht. 193oJ
Evening star., 1939-03-23

centered around business conditions meeting
fairly pessimistc.
TO be sure advances from present production levels
anticipated But
in business and national the Presidents
compensatory spending surprise those
all New
meeting agreed the only
to get private enterprise to work.
Methods Of doing so in the key industries housing
railroads discussed
cedure to study industry
might start the flow Of investment In the great
decision But again. it's enormously
something generally
need for action action Of usually follows
BY Ameic
Evening star., 1939-03-23

ACFCACAGAy Ale
clined, receptive and responsive to
ministrations with no intolerance.
If the public would let up its
political pressure, constantly exert
ed, the country would get better
legislation" was DR.. Montgomery's
comment. He has served the House
under six Speakers and regards
Speaker William B. Bankhead as .
great Speaker, very fair"
DR.. Montgomery was born at
Mount Carmel, Ind. His father,
two grandfathers and three uncles
were all preachers. II couldn't go
very far astray with that back
ground" he says. After he was
graduated at Muncie Academy he
tried first the printing trade-and
then became an actor at 10. Tho
church was in his blood, however,
and a year later he swung away
from the worldly boards.
The National Capital has been
DR.. Montgomery's home since 1911,
and here he was pastor of the
Metropolitan Memorial M. E. Church,
then Of the Calvary Church, and
again with the Metropolitan Me.
mortal Church, whose new edifice he
helped to build. He retired in 1893
and since then has given all his time
to the members of the House, spend.
ing several hours each day at the
Capitol.
DR.. Montgomery is an amiable,
temperate man, with fine, strong
face, softened by life of service. A
shock Of white hair, very blue eyes
and a sonorous voice are character.
lstic features. Twelve times he
has crossed the Atlantic on preach.
ing missions. He took q course at
Oxford. became interested in Rus.
kin and wrote the Voice of a New
Age" believing that Ruskin was
the prophet Of new era. Per.
sonally DR.. Montgomery doesn't be.
lieve in substituting social service for
the religion of Jesus, which he
maintains covers all demands Of
social service.
Evening star., 1939-03-23

TO ters violations Of understand
The idea OF the London
the Russians together movement appears
to the observers, to say the least, childish.
1t evident that there
bother Germany with their military forces
the U. s, s. r. and Poland.
When Polands foreign minister Col Joseph
January to the Riviera for vacation
wanted to discuss the international situation
government he received peeved
other things to do Beck went to Berlin Paris
The Russians equally treated
London and Paris appealing
Inhabitants to something much
pulling the chestnu out OF the fire democrae
While the two principal European
ated for front Mussoni approached
unofcia1y and asked what would
to accept in the shape OF colonial concessions
is rumored that the
talk with him the the
landwfout the Of Jbuti
Moreover, the French would willing nominal
the Jbuti- Adds Ababa Railroad
His speech next Sunday night is awaited
the world He will probably talk
part of the old Roman only
logical that it should become
The repercuon OF the latest bloodess
cratic states. While the citizens OF
and ndignatonin other sections Of the especially
L
Evening star., 1939-03-23
The Political Mill
Possuee Of Reorganization Bill Hos
Workers on Anxious Bench

ponents Of the bill as passed de.
clared, does not conform to the con-
stitutional idea, which was for the
President to recommend and Con-
gress to legislate. Some Of the
measures, opponents insist, is that
the Supreme Court, If 1t construed
the Constitution correctly, would
hold the bill unconstitutional. Just
how the matter could get before the
Supreme Court is still to be de-
termined, however.
Senator Wheeler Of Montana.
Democrat. led fight for an amend
ment to the bill which would have
made it necessary for Congress by
action Of both houses to approve a
presidential reorganization order
before 1t became law. This would
have been along the lines Of the
Constitution, which sets up Congress
as the sole legislative agency of the
Government. The administration.
apparently considering this a reflec-
ton upon President Roosevelt. vigor-
ously opposed the amendment. It
lost the battle by single vote on
Tuesday, but on reconsideration yes
terday won by margin of two
votes. Senator Chavez of New
Mexico, Democrat, changed his posi-
ton overnight and voted with the
administration forces yesterday.
Otherwise the vote for reconsidera-
ton would have been a tie, only to
be broken had Vice President Garner
voted.
Not Ready for Break,
It looked for time as though
Vice President Garner would have
to take a position for or against the
administration on this issue. It is
believed he would have supported
the President-that he is not ready
for an open break with the White
House, although he is constantly
reported as leading the New Deal
opposition Democrats in the Senate
and even influencing the anti-New
Deal Democrats in the House. How
ever that may be, Mr.. Garner was
not put on the spot. Had he been
ready to deliver a frontal attack on
the administration he would have
voted to break the tie which on
Tuesday prevented the tabling of a
motion to reconsider the vote by
which the Wheeler amendment had
then been adopted. But the Vice
President remained as quiet as
mouse, and his failure to vote made
1t possible for the administration
forces to rally enough votes yester-
day to reconsider the vote by which
the Wheeler amendment had been
adopted-and then defeat the
amendment.
Mr.. Garner was not the only op-
ponent of some of the presidential
policies to fail Senator Wheeler,
Senator Clark of Missouri and others
who opposed the reorganization bill
as 1t now stands. Senator Pat Har-
rison of Mississippi was entirely reg
ular in his vote against the Wheeler
amendment, for example.
The President wins this battle,
however, and his victory is likely to
enhance his prestige in the Senate
and the House and to make other
victories more likely. He has yet
to get from Congress the full $780,
COCOON additional he Is demanding
for the w. P. A. for the remainder
Evening star., 1939-03-23

tIle reorganization plan advanced
by the President in 1887, 1t is still by
far the most comprehensive measure
Of the kind ever put through Con-
gress. What the President will do
with 1t has been forecast to some
extent in the report submitted by
him to the Congress two years ago.
Not unnaturally, a large number
Of Government officials and en-
ployes will be on the anxious bench
and they may be anxious for some
time to come, for the President
under the authority now given him
may make changes in the Govern
ment agencies this year, next year
and the year alter that and so on.
And the President who follows the
present Chief Executive may try
his hand at Government reorgani-
zation. This may be a good thing,
but scarcely calculated to quiet
jumpy nerves.
Principle Is the Same.
It has been obvious for q long
time that many bureaus and agencies
Of the Government overlap in their
duties and their work. And GER
tainly since the Roosevelt admins
tration has been on the Job a con-
siderable number of new agencies
have been set up which deal with
similar subjects-as in housing and
public works. A good deal of money
could be saved undoubtedly II con-
solidations were made. But whether
the President will make that kind OF
reorganization remains to be seen.
The President does not. under
either the House or Senate bill, have
authority to set up new Depart
ment of Welfare as originally pro-
posed. He does not have authority
either to abolish the Civil Service
Commission and to substitute a
single arbiter in its place, nor the
authority TO abolish the Office Of
the Controller General Of the United
States and substitute an auditor
general with only post st-audit powers.
The bill he is now getting is a half
loaf. But the principle involved in
the proposed new legislation is the
same as in the original. Congress
has undertaken to give the President
power to legislate agencies 1t has
set up by law out Of existence or into
consultations with other agencies.
The only check would be action by
both houses of Congress vetoing q
presidential reorganization order
which is Considered as practical
matter no real check at all. At the
end Of so days the Presidents order
would become law.
This is . new wrinkle, and as op-