The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1937, Page 1

B ) el Ul o ) % IE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALl THE TIME” VOL. XLIX., NO. 7472. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS IMPERILED CORDOVASAF Insurgent Ba AIR BATTLES ARE NOW DUE OVER BILBAD Government Planes Report- ed to Have Arrived on Fight Front CRUISER IS SUNK _IN BAY OF BISCAY Loss of Life—l—s Estimated at Hundreds — First Incident in History BILBAO, Spain, April 30—Gov- ernment airmen yesterday sank the Insurgent battleship Espana. Possibly hundreds of casualties occurred in the sinking of the Es- pana which is the first war vessel of any size to be sunk by an air- plane in all naval history. Only 110 officers and members of the crew are reported to have been picked up. If the Espana had a full comple- ment aboard there would have been® 854 officers and men on the warship which was a 16,000 ton craft carry- ing 14-inch guns. The bomb from the airplane hit squarely amidships and the Espana went down quickly: The Espana, with the Insurgent cruiser Velasco, was trying to keep a small fréighter, the Brora, out of the Spanish port of Santader. Insurgent planes are blasting Bil- bao's fortifications, attempting to clear a path for the Insurgent Army while 30,000 Government troops in Bilbao wait to make a last stand against the Insurgents. Bilbao today cheered the arrival| ttleship Is Sunk EAT KETCHIKAN By Shell Fire in Alaska to Opinion of B. SEATTLE, April 30.—B. F. Heint- | zleman, Regional Forester in cnarge lof the National Forest work in Al- aska, who is sailing Saturday on the | Yukon for his headquarters in Ju- Pulp Industry Devel_opment MATTSON CASE SUSPECT NOW ENROUTE WEST Be Revived Is F. Heintzleman increased consumption of newsprint. Heintzleman said the Forest JAPAN DEFIES U. S, CANADA FISHING ISSUE | Service will work in full coopera- |tion with the new Planning Board Gov. John W. Troy is to appoint. “We can start from the scratch | Arrest Reported Made in South Dakota — Fed- eral Agent in Charge Will Contin;e_lo Take Sal- mon, Make Surveys Off Alaska Coast neau, told the Alaska Committee |in the development of the natural of the Seattle Chamber of Com- |resources in the Alaska Territory CUSTER, South Dakota, April 30.| TOKYO, April 30. — Japan will merce yesterday afternoon, that he‘ believes interest will soon be re-| vived in the pulp industry develop-| ment in Alaska as the result of in- | creased prices in the states and! which is in the same stage now as the Western United States was after —Jesse Ickes, suspect in the Matt- son kidnaping and slaying case, is eonfi'mle fishing and making sur- veys off the Alaska coast despite the Civil War. Planning will avold{y )i0veq t be on his way to Tacoma, mistakes in development of thé| 5 p West,” said Heintzleman. bl custolly ol Pedersl ‘affl Open with SEATTLE UNION LEADER JAILED, HEART BROKEN Blighted Romance Blamed | by James Engstrom for Landing in ‘Hoosegow’ James Engstrom, of Seattle, Sec- ICQun{:pr{;l%lee *MarM'meE Mfifln |and special deputy sheriff of King |County, Washingten, is in the Fed- eral jail in Juneau, victim of a iblighted romance and under the |technical charge of drunkenness, it |was learned today. Engstrom was taken into custody ii’l;zctroencephalography Job Salary of Sheriff Ed Gray admitted he had released Ickes to a Federal Agent named Bryce. It has been learned that a pris- oner in the county jail with Ickes claimed to have overheard a con- versation between the suspect and Twenty-two letters are required to| the Federal agent in which Ickes is spell the branch of learning asso-|alleged to have admitted he was in- ciated with a federal government volved in the abduction. positions, applications for which are| being taken by the United States| Civil Service Commission, Room 311.1 TACOMA, Wash, April 30.—Dr. Federal and Territorial Building. |w. w. Mattson, when informed that The position is for an associated|q suspect was on his way here, said: physicist in_electroencephalography «1 nope it is true and not another with the Public Health Service, suc- faise rumor, but I do not know a cessful candidates being required|ining apout it.” to “design, construct, repair and i R carry on research on apparatus to, measure electro-potential of the | brain,” Salary is 63,200 a year. s sEvEL Applications are also being taken 1 for the position on endocrinologist | of Dairy industry.| LEAVING T!!n AY FOR NORTHWEST $3,200 HOPES IT IS TRUE milk production of ALASKA ORPHAN in Seattle with {First Lady of Land to Visit! opposition of Canadian ahd United States fishing interests. This was disclosed today by the Miniéfry and Agriculture and For- estry, It 35 announced that fishery, also| nautieal experts will shortly revisit | the Alaskan and Canadian waters| in centinuation of their search for| new fishing grounds begun durlng! last year under a three-year plan.| | Japen now has extensive fishing |rights off the Siberian coast un-| |der grants from Russia, but there| have' been rumors of cancellation | of the grants before they automat-| ically expire at the end of this| year. | s e | ON COURT PLAN at Paris, France, is the prize. states took part, SEEKING SPEED VSR S /0 K Shirley Joy Ellis, aged 21, auburn haired Seattle girl, last night won ’ the title of “Miss Westernm America” in a contest sponsored by the Golden Gate International Exposition. A trip to the Exposition Seattle Miss, “Miss Western” % Competitors from eleven western ACTION N COM. | Is Candidate for Unfavorable Report Not Effect Vote | WASHINGTON, April 30. — Ad- of 32 Government planes from Val- by officers late yesterday after- encia as Tnsurgent bombers areinoon on the Nugget Creek trail af-| wreaking destruction in Bilbao. |ter reports had reached authorities |that the Seattle labor official had IDAHO, SPANISH REFUGE |“gcted queer” and said something BOISE, Idaho, April 30.—Idaho'’s about “never coming back.” Basque colonoy today offered sanc<f Rumors of “suicide” spread like tuary to Bibao's war tattered refu- wildfire around Juneau last night,| gees, but immigration laws barred put official investigation revealed| the way. |the rumor to be unfounded. How-| Hundreds of the city’s defenders ever, it did reveal, authorities said, relatives are living in this Spanish|that Engstrom was suffering from colony, the %asgest in the United what was termed a “blighted ro- ASYLUM BURNED, WOODY ISLAND :: |here last night from Chicago and|displeased with the agreement and| Crew of Coast Guard Cut- leaves this afternoon for Seattle for the delay of the Committee’s decis- | |a visit of ame week with her son- jon to May 18. lin-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. |John Boettiger. ter Tallapoosa Aids Fighting Flames Boettigers SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 30. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the First Lady of the Land, arrived Mrs. Roosevelt knitted during the SEATTLE, April 30.—The burn-iplane hop here. ing of the Baptist Orphanage on| The Boettigers are here on a bus-| ministration leaders endeavored to |speed the Senate Judiciary Com- | mittee to vote on the Roosevell & Court bill despite the prospect of | Prominent Young Seattle | an unfavorable outcome. The Administration officials nre! Attorney_ May Head Vets’ Body INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 30. They claim an unfavorable com-| cyngidates for the office of Na- | mittee vote will not effect the Sen-'y;ona) commander of the American ate vote. Legion, including Stephen F. Chad- States, and they have pledged fi- nancial aid to war orphans. TO EVACUATE BILBAO PARIS, April 30.—An attempt will be made to aid 150,000 men, women and children in the Bilbao sector and evacuation is to be attempted at once, it is said. The Insurgents are reported pressing hard against the defenders. Great Britain has agreed to aid in the evacuation but the exact steps to be taken are not decided, Frencn Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos said. Japanese Plants Increase Output Canning Production Shows Tremendous Advance— British Use Goods SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, April 30. —Japanese canneries increased their mance.” It's All Over Officials reported they learned, |from Engstrom and Miss Loretta |Lynch of Seattle, who arrived here recently from the south to visit |her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. |J. A. Berg of Tenakee, that the| icouple had come to parting of the {ways. It was said that Engstrom followed Miss Lynch north to |“patch it up.” He went to Tenakee |after arriving here Monday on the) |steamer Alaska and the two re- turned to Juneau on the Roedda | Wednesday night. Yesterday afternoon after a con-| ference with Miss Lynch, Engstrum’ hired a cab and rode out to the |glacier where he dismissed the taxi |driver, telling him - he need not |bother to come back. Perplexed bH !the man’s attitude, the driver re- 'ported to authorities, who investiw gated, finding Engstrom walking up ithe trail, his hand clasping a pistol ;he carried in his pocket. Brought ito jail here he was charged with {drunkenness. PRODUCTION OF |in Northwest lumber mills last week Woody Island, near Kodiak, Alaska, |iness trip and will fly north with| last night was reported by the Coast | the First Lady. Guard today, by Capt. H. R. Searls, | NOT LIKELY T0 BE MADE ished and 78 children were taken | out of the structure uninjured. | The crew of the Tallapoosa aided | President Himself Express- es Doubts If Appeal Will Be Answered in the rescue work and prevented | LUMBEH |s up WASHINGTON, April 30.—Fiscal the spread of the flames to the powerhouse and water storage house, both of which were saved. | e —— | | | |experts predict President Roosevelt's |appeal for governmental econmy will |fail to whittle the budget and de- |partment heads report the Presi- dent is expressing doubts as to the | possible cuts. Senator Robinson, Administration |leader, endorsed those demanding SEATTLE, April 30.—Production totalled 123,000,000 feet or 7,000,000 feet above the previous week. Lumbermen now report they are handicapped by cargo space short- age. Legion’s Indiana Department Sun- o wick of Seattle, will address the . jannual spring conference of the G“udnews Mlner {day. The commander is to be elect- & {ed at the National Convention this { ‘" st“d Hadln summer in New York. | y | | | st I Stephen Chadwick is the son of | ate of Area :the late Judge Stephen Chadwick, who was long a prominent figure in | Washington state politics. He has Former Seattle Air Ama- i teur Plans to Fly North i with Pilot Neese | | States Senator from Washington on |the Republican ticket. long been a leader in veterans' af- |fairs, both nationally and in his |home state and four yedrs ago was |himself a candidate for United SEATTLE, April 30—J. P. Gru-| Mr. Chadwick enrolled in the vol- |ble, former president of a Seattle untary training camp at Fort Law- |radio club, plans to study the civ-|ton, in May, 1917, and entered ac- lillzalion and ivory handicraft of tual military service at the 2nd Of- | Alaskan Indians in the Goodnews|ficers' Training Camp at the Pre-| | Bay area, also the geology and short- {sidio of San Francisco in August, |wave radio conditions of the dis-(1917. He was commissioned first |trict. This is to be done this coming |lieutenant of the Infantry. |summer. He served with the 364th infantry, | Mr. Gruble has just returned to|91st division; 8th infantry, 8th di- vision, and 27th infantry, American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia. Lieutenant Chadwick was honorably |Seattle from a 4,000 mile trip | through ‘Alaska and is going north BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS {Measure Will Be Rushed to] President on Gulf, by Plane WASHINGTON, April 30.—A new| neutrality bill, supplanting the one which expires tomorrow, broadening | {the restrictions against trade with warring nations, will be rushed by| Iplane to President Roosevelt, who ‘is vacationing off the Gulf coast for his signature. Congressional action was complet- ed Thursday and the Senate voted l41 to 15 to accept a compromise| | measure which represents a partial victory for S tary Cordell Hull and his associates, who have long (advocated greater discretionary {powers for the President in handling| !this country’s neutrality policy. ! ‘Gen.fiéflfififir Married in N. Y. NEW YORK, April 30. — Gen. Douglas MacArthur, military advis- ler to the Philippine Government, and Chief of Staff of the United |States Army in 1933 and 1934, and |Miss Jean Marie Faircloth, were married today in the Chapel in the output last year over the 1935 to-| After a conference with officials tal 17% percent, while the value of |this morning, Engstrom is said to production rose 12 and six-tenths have agreed to take the steamer percent to total one hundred and Baranof south tonight. He had a twenty-seven and a half million return ticket. dollars. Their output amounted to; In the meantime. Miss Lynch was nearly 10,200,000 cases roughly on|“not at home to anyone” at her| a par with California canned hotel. peaches. Report from Seattle Wwas that Thesr are the estimates made by D. W. Lamm, United States com- mercial attache in the Tokyo of- fice. Tomato and orange packs made new highs and pineapple and sal- mon increased somewhat. Great Britain is Japan's best cus- tomer for canned goods with the United States ranking second. Widow of Congressman Plans Career in Movies SEATTLE, April 30—Mrs. Rubye Louise Nix-Zioncheck, widow of the late Congressman, leaves tonight for Hollywood, hinting she will appear in a picture with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, the latter the wife of Al Jolson. Engstrom came north in connection with a dispute over the Alaska |Cannery Workers Union, but he is reported to have told officials here that while he expected to do some {work for the union, his main quest in Alaska- was an affair of the | heart. BASEBALL TODAY The foltowing are results of base- |ball games played this afternoon in the Major Leagues: American League Philadelphia 5; Boston 15. | St. Louis at Chicago, rain. | National League | Brooklyn 2; New York 11. | ioston 10; Philadelphia 2. Chicago 7; Pittsburgh 2. Rain (Hush!) May Spoil King’s Show LONDON—It's nothing short of - Be flmed Now a blanket 10 percent cut of the les\agaln with Pilot Kenneth Neese, of ‘approprlatlons, |the Star Airways, in a few months. | ‘F'lymg first to Anchorage from here |with the veteran Alaska pilot, Gru- |ble will. then make the five hundred imile hop from there to Goodnews {Bay, where he is connected with a large mining company. Nonpartisan Campaign discharged in May, 1919. He was {Captain in the Judge Advocate Gen- leral's Department Reserve from|ss and Miss Faircloth as 38. 1925 to 1035. This is the General’s second mar- A member of Seaftle Post of the|yrjage. |Legion since September, 1919, Mr. |Chadwick has been post command- er and a member of the depurtmvanEw KENSINGTON MINE | Municipal Building. Gen. MacArthur gave his age as |national committee for cumpurauvn‘ |executive committee and other com-| |mittees. He was chairman of theisUPm‘IENDENT HERE, high treason to suggest such a thing, but (sh-sh-h!) it might just possibly rain in London on Corona- tion day, May 12. pany on Location for o . Spawn of North’ It is cruel to contemplate what a good, cold London rain would do| SEATTLE, April 30.—Advices re- to the coronation, even if the deco- ceived here from Hollywood -said rations have been waterproofed. Paramount Pictures has taken the The procession would be drab,|script for “Spawn of the North” with all the colorful uniforms con-iout of its files and is sending Ran- cealed under great-coats, and the|dolph Scott, Gail Patrick and King and Queen riding in a closed |Paramount to Send Com-| |study of veterans’ aid legislation Planned by Hamilton; Goes On Air Saturday i, 620, and now heads the na- |tional Americanization commission | WASHINGTON, April 30. — Jobn| 1p civil life, Mr. Chadwick has | Hamilton, Republican Chairman in-jpracticed law in Seattle since 1915, dicated he will conduct & €ampaign | excep for war, service; is trustee against ‘Roosevelt’s policies on alang vice president of the Seattle |non-partisan basis and makes his|\chamber of Commerce and civilian |first of four talks over the radio|aide to the secretary of war for | Saturday. the State of Washington. | Hamilton declined to say wheth- LB i SR | carriage. It wouldn't be much to !see; and the sooner one saw it and Charles Bickford to locations onler Republicans attract Democratic Puget Sound and the Columbia gissenters. He will make an active River to make the Barrett Wil-|campaign in the fall continuing to PLANS FISHING TRIP loughby story picture. It was planned to have made the |picture last year near Ketchikan, | Alaska, but Carole Lombard was ta- ken sick and the “taking” was cancelled. got under cover, the better. Concessionaires, who expect to do a roaring business if the weather holds good, have protected them- selves with rain insurance—just in jcase. |campaign to eliminate his party's| Dr. G. F. Freeburger plans to ;deflcn,' celebrate his birthday tomorrow on ———r —— a fishing trip out Eagle River, leav- Three ways of planting cotton|ing aboard his boat, the Norah, to- are generally practiced in Oklahoma morrow afternoon and remaining level, ridge and lister planting. over the week-end. ARRIVES ON PR. NORAH Coming north to take the post vacated last winter by A. B. Trites, as superintendent of the Kenington igold mine, H. A. Rose arrived in |Juneau from Vancouver, B. C., this forenoon aboard the steamer Prin- cess Norah, and plans to leave very soon for Comet to take over his duties. Mr. Rose” has previously been connected with the Vinette mines in British Columbia. He stated that P. W. Racey, consuiting geol- FLAMES ABOARD ALASKA VESSEL ARE SMOTHERED Steering Gt;;r— Repaired— Craft, Battling Gale, Reaches Port COAST PATROL ALERT IS CONVOY FOR SHIP Apprehension as to Steam- er, Passengers, Crew Is Now Relieved Steamer Cordova, Capt. D. J, Goetz, of the Alaska Steamship Company, which yesterday morn- ing reported a fire raging in Num- ber 2 hold, with a broken steering gear, and in a gale while the ship was enroute north from Seattle, and was then in the middle of Hecate Strait, and asked for aid, reached Ketchikan under her own power at 12:10 o'clock this morn- ing, according to advices reecived by The Empire. The fire in the hold has been smothered by steam. The patrol boat Alert, of the Coast. Guard, which sped from Ketchikan yesterday morning to aid the ?:: dova, convoyed the vessel Ketchikan. ¢ The naval tender Swallow and Late yesterday rnoon, The Empire received a radio that the steering gear had been repaired and the Cordova was proceeding fo Ketchikan, although the fire at that time was not under control, the storm also moderating. The arrival of the Cordova Ketchikan relieved regarding the steamer and the pas- sengers and crew aboard. at apprehension NO CONFUSION ABOARD KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 30.— Passengers arriving here today aboard the steamer Cordova, which was afire yesterday in Hecate Strait, said there was no confusion during the storm or fire that struck the freighter. Frank Olmstead, 20, a University of Washington Junior, who was one of the first off the ship on its ar- rival here early today, admitted that he was “a little scared when the steward got me up early yester- day when the ship was rolling hea- vily in the 60 mile-an-hour gale, the steering gear broken and the fire raging in the hold.” The fire was finally put out at 5 o'clock last night and the extent of the damage seems principally to a cargo of liquor in the hold. Fight- ing the fire with live steam caused the fibre board boxes containing the liquor to collapse. Cause Unknown The cause of the fire was not an« nounced but Olmstead said “some fellows were plenty seasick and did not want to get up even after the fire broke out and the deck plates were too hot to put your hand on.” The steering gear failed about 4 o'clock a.m. yesterday and anchors were dropped. Two hours later the fire was discovered. At 7 o’'clock steam was turned into the hold and a call for help radioed. By 9 o'clock the steering gear was repaired. Relief Ships Arrive The Swallow which had answered the Cordova's distress signals ar- rived at her side at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and the Alert arrived an hour and a half later, but the Cap- tain of the Cordova remarked, it would have been impossible to launch lifeboats in the heavy seas. One official expressed the opinion (Continued on Pqe_ilve) Immediate Funds For Alaska Air Base Is Urged WASHINGTON, April 30.—Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said he will ask Congress to amend the War Department appropriation bill so as to provide $2,000,000 for im- mediate construction of the Alaska ogist for the Kensington develop- !ment, expects to come north next week. Mr. Rose said he has not before been in this section of Alaska. ‘Territory air base. Delegate Dimond said he under- stands a site near Fairbanks, Al- aska, has already been tentatively selected for the air base.