The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7509. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS TROOPS ARE CALLED OUT, STEEL STRIKE NO FISHI THAT IS, THEY ARE NOT SHIPS WITH LIGENSES Boats May, However, Be Operating for Tempor- ary Reasons Only FOREIGN OFFICE HAS REPLY TO STATE DEPT. Maritime Federation Takes Action — Halt Re- ported Invasion WASHINGTON, June 12.—Secre-| tary Cordell Hull, of the State De- partment, said the department has been assured by the Japanese For- eign Office at Tokyo that no Jap- anese fishing boats have veen granted licenses for fishing in Al- askan waters. This was the information to th: State Department in response to inquiries resulting from a letter from Senator Homer T. Bone to the department who stated over 100 fishing boats were operating off the Bristol Bay, Alaska, section. The entire subject has been re- celving official attention here for some time. May Be There, However ./ The Japanese reply said that if any Japanese boats were in Alas- kan waters they may be there for temporary reasons. It is indicated that in any event the State Department is not dis-: posed to take any further action until full facts are established. They Are There One apparently authentic report received here states there are fish- ing vessels of Japan with a small fleet of tenders operating outside of Territorial waters. One of the large craft is a 6,000-ton crab catcher and the other specializes in packing dry pulverized fish meal. i — HALT 1S DEMANDED PORTLAND, Oregon, June 12.— The Maritime Federation of the Pacific, in convention here, has passed a resolution approving a message to President Roosevelt in recommending immediate action to halt the alleged Japariese invasion on the Bristol Bay.fisheries or in any other section of the Alaskan waters. —————— EVANGELIST IS HELD, CHARGES LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 12— John James, 43, missionary evan- gelist, is held for a preliminary hearing on June 15 on a charge of attacking his half-sister, Edith Ruth James, 15, during a cross- country trip from Alabama. James denied the charge vigorously. ————— ACTRESS IS TO NG BO ATS IN ALASKAN WATERS, SAYS JAPAN i—Icr Publicity Scheme Failed Convicted of burglaries she allegedly committed to gain publicity which might help her to crash the movies, blond Jean Hepburn found her scheme went into reverse when she was sentenced to two to 10 years in jail. When authorities took her to the women's prison at Tehachapi, Cal,, they were forced to carry her bedily because of her e e efforts to resist./ SEATTLE FIRE CAUSES LOSS OF §100,000 One of Largest Bag Plants in Nation Reported Destroyed SEATTLE, June 12—Fire of an lundetermined origin swept through two buildings in Seattle’s industrial southend last night causing dam- age, insurance adjusters estimated, at $100,000. A wind fanned the blaze spread-[mews agency. i isg from the Buffalo Jung Com- pany’s building to the adjoining Fisher & Smith Bag Company’s plant. The bag plant, one of the larg- est in the United States, is believed to be a total loss. One fireman was slightly injured fighting the fierce blaze. ANOTHER BLAZE SEATTLE, June 12. — Firemen extinguished a fire which blazed within 500 feet of the huge stor- ~ RAISE FAMILY HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 12. — Loretta Young, well-known actress, disclosed that she had adopted two children, Jane aged 3% years and Judy, aged 22 months. She first saw the children in a Los Angeles orphanage on Christmas. Court approval of the adoption must be given. ————— age tank of the Seattle Gas Com- pany’s Lake Union plant. Workmen said a gas meter blew up ‘and a huge column of oily smoke arose. AMELIA 18 TAKING RES PARIS, June 12—The Air-Af- rique French Aviation Company reports that Amelia Earhart and Ready 1o Fight At Drop of Hat, That's Germany Just S!ar;gmething in Spanish Waters, Retal- iation Will Be Swift BERLIN, June 12, — Germany | will reply to the slightest provo- cation in Spanish waters with) “lightning like counterstroke.” { This is according to an official . FOREST FIRES " ARE REPORTED Blazes Seen by Pilots Be- tween Fairbanks, Daw- son and Whitehorse FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 12— Airplane pilots report forest fires are seen between here, Dawson and Whitehorse. The heat is melting snow, raising rivers and increasing the fire danger, MAJOR LYDIA BACK IN ALASKA AFTER 24 YEARS OUTSIDE “Alaska leaves 8 call, and after FIRE RAGES ON WATERFRONT OF BESIEGED CITY Concentrated Aerial, Artil- lery Attack Made by Insurgents onBilboa HENDAYE, France, June 12, — The waterfront at Bilbao is report=i ed to have been set aflame after & combined aerial and artillery bom=- bardment as the Insurgent offel is reported to have cracked the er line of the city's last stand®of dffenses. An aerial attack was c {ed on three objectives, the waterfront, militiamen's ba and the water reservoir. A large force of planes shi back and forth between the ! and Bilbao making the concentrated attack as artillery shells burst in] the attacked positions. OYSTER BILL Girl“lA}r"id;e',_lli’fr,flat;cii Her Five Stei)childrtl're;ll Lillian June Smith, 14 (second from left), is shown with her husband, Evart Sawyer, 40, a truck driver of Lamar, Mo., and her five stepchildren, one of whom is her own age. Left to right, Sawyer, his bride; Myra Edith, 14; Myrtle May, 11; Margaret Jean, 8; Harold William, 6, and Hershell Floyd, 8. The marriage be- came known when the bride’s mother appealed to the sheriff to have her daughter returned home, but the girl declared she loves her husband. and the parents withdrew their objections, BATTALION T0 " BE DISPATCHED, MONROE, MICH. Governor Murphy Acts to “Insure Peaceable As- sembly” Of All | STRIKE NOW SPREADS TO BETHLEHEM PLANT | Peace ConEnce, Called by Governor Davey, Adjourns to Tuesday (By Associated Press) ‘The seven state steel strike has spread to a unit of the Bethlehem Steel, hitherto unaffected, while Gov. Frank Murphy, of Michigan, \announced that a battalion of Na- tional Guardsmen and 100 State Police will be sent to Monroe, Mich~ igan, early tomorrow to prevent dis- order in the strike there. The peace conference called by Gov. Davey, of Ohio, has recessed until Tuesday with no progress re- ported made so far. . The strike at the Bethlehem Steel — e | WASHINGTON, June 12. — The {vorabiy of the bill intended td pro- tect_tbe Alaska ouster-eWiture ! The bill would authorize the Secretary of Commerce to lease bot< toms of Territorial waters for bona fide oyster -cultivation for ;merclal purposes. L o o e o d i “DEAK” BROWN BATTLESHIP PASSES AWAY, - TENNESSEE com- | ; IS AGROUND | .KETCHIKAN, June 12. — E. W. |“Deak” Brown, 48, died as the re-| isult of heart disease at his home {here after an -extended. illness. He Icame here in 1924 from Anacortes,| |Wash., where hew as active in the| fisheries. Tugs Attempting to Pull Navy Craft Off Fris- co Bay Shoal Brown was prominent in city af-| fairs, serving on the Council for{ gAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 12. o it are s ¥ Dasily Alaska Empire Assigned Permanent Place in ‘Volume, ‘American Newspapers’ gick NEW YORK, June 12—As the| result of a nationwide demand for |a complete and Ahistoric “Journalis- |tic Guidepost” to American public | Lop(mon. and affer unprecedented | |research under the direction of a |board of eminent educational au- ‘thurmeu, the Daily Alaska Empire |of Juneau has been assigned a per- |manent place in the monumental | |survey volume entitled “American | newspapers.” it was announced here‘ today. The work, made possible pri- |marily by “generous grants from | the Laura Spelman Rockefeller me- {morial and the Rockefeller Foun- dation,” was prepared under the Wash., where he was active in the _A dozen tugboats today swarmed | American Legion and Eagles. |about the 32,000-ton battleship Ten- | A widow and three children, rang- nessee and are straining vainly to| |ing in age from four to 15 years, free her from a San Francisco Bay {survive. {shoal, | supervision of the Bibligraphical | Society of America by a special| committee consisting of Chairman | James Thayer Gerould of Prince-| ton, Harry Miller Lydenberg, Di-| rector of the New York Public Li- brary, and Henry Spaulding Par-| plant at Johnston, Pa., was called 12,000 and 15,000 men, declared the /jwill be called on other Béethiehem |Steel plants. pose of “insuring peaceable assem-~ House Appropriations Com-| EARE © Lot T | WASHINGTON, June 12. — The NAMED PRUBE House Appropriations Committee' ] to operate and improve the War tem in Alaska, 1 s Headed by Harrison— last night. The General Manager of imill was operating however on BE IMPRUVED Gov. Murphy stated that sending |bly,” of auto workers and steel work- mittee Makes Re- | SIX SENATURS has approved and sent to Congress TAX nnnale The amount is an increase of $3,- . House to Name Six 'A sYsTEM the plant, which employs between 2 schedule. of troops to Monroe is for the pur- iers and the public. quest to Congress a request for $166,338 with which Department’s communication eys- Special Senate Committee 000 over last year. The money comes from receipts’ of the system, the Committeg said,’ WASHINGTON, June 12—Vice- and the additional funds will be President Garner's office announces used for “carrying forward gradual the, appointment of six Senators, equipment for a modernization pro- headed by Harrison, who is chair- gram.” |man of the Senate Finance Com- The Committee disclosed that the mittee, to join with the Congres- Co-pilot ' Noonan are apparently|24 years I am heeding it,” de- resting at Fort Lamy, French Equa-|clared Maj. W. K. Lydia, who, ac- torial Africa, before resuming their| companied by Mrs, Lydia, is a DICK POWELL SERIOUSLY ILL HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 12. — Dick Powell, actor, was taken hur- riedly home today suffering from EVERETT, Wash., June 12. — A\he was in service in Alaska. Major a severe attack of intestinal influ- marriage license has been issued tojand Mrs. Lydia plan a leisurely enza. to work for several weeks. world- flight to Khartoum. Anchorage Man Is to Be Married in South Frank M. Reed, of Anchorage, Al- Physicians said he will be unable'aska, and Maxine McGarry, of An- passenger to Skigway from the States aboard theé steamer Mount McKinley. ek Major Lydia i§ $efired from the U. 8. Army after 30 'years of active duty. Twenty-four years ago The battleship ground her nose SENATOR coa.lRAN on the mudflats off Alameda in| lN JUNEAU BRIEFLY arrival from the Bremerton Navy Yard. /be lightered to reduce the weight of the battleship. turning to drop an anchor after| ON WAYBACK’ NOME: Naval advices said -the fuel might i s Tackling Problems Prepar- Returning from Seattle, where he has been since the adjournment| of the Territorial Legislature, Sen- ator O. D. Cochran, from the Sec- - ond Division, arrived here aboard! flcrat essl“n the steamer Mount McKinley andf 9 this afternoon boarded the PAA| uge Electra for Fairbanks, to return to Ma"“me Fed his home at Nome. He stayed here n at the Gastineau Hotel. . Immediately after reaching Seat- B n H eld tle, Senator Cochran was stricken| s e' with influenza and was confined wi bed for more than a week, he re-| e ported. Other than his illness, he had a busy and pleasant stay in Seattle. The steamer Victoria, now atory %O.Take v°te' just off Nome, sailed from Seattle Joining Clo loaded to the rails with Nome res-| idents and supplies and mining| PpORTLAND, Oregon, June 12.— equipment, he reported. He mel pelegates to the Maritime Federa- many old friends in Seattle. A case|tion of the Pacific convention went in court awaits Senator and At-|into a secret session today to tackle torney Cochran immediately on his parliamentary problems to clear the arrival back at Nome. way for action on a resolution for |atfiliation with the CIO. D‘i‘y ccmin‘; | Newspapermen are banned from Daisy Going to Have Baby, Too \has been named and will hand out information. e - ' Three-Alarm Fire SEATTLE, June 12—Daisy, & Guernsey cow, sailed today on the steamer Derblay for Kotzebue. Daisy was bought by Warren Fer- guson, Kotzebue trader, when he was here several weeks ago and he said then the cow was going to his Arctic home, Dirk van Woerden, who sold the cow, said: “Daisy is geing to have a baby, too, when she gets north.” OAKLAND, Cal., June 12.—Loss- es in a threesalarm fire, sweeping the Oakland store and warehouse trip from Skagway into Dawson and down the Yukon River. “We are just tourlsts” he said. ———————— Starfish are among the worst ene- mies of oysters. of the Western Auto Supply Com- pany, are estimated at between $75,000 and $100,000. sons, Chief of the Newspaper Ar- System earned $308,931 during the sional Joint committee to investi- the session but a press committee| chives Division of the Library of fiscal year of 1936. iCongress.‘ “It seeks to coordinate! the journalistic resources of the ns-l . tion for student and scholar by c"mml"aen K’s (B Y] Rivers, Harb IVers, narnors listing union form history content and location of the files of leading newspapers preserved in the United House Group Includes Dry Pass Among Recom- States and Canada beginning with the year 1920. " mended Apporpriations According to the foreword, the value of the information which the Daily Alaska Empire and its fellow group of newspapers contain “can hardly be overestimated as they are a primary source for national and local history and for a study of the evolution of economic and political opinfon. In the advertising |pages and commercial columns are found the record of our industrial| WASHINGTON, June 12. — The and business history.” Aid was en- House Appropriations committee listed also of educational authori-'has recommended expenditure of ties in each state and in Provinces|$7,302,000 on Pacific Northwest and of Canada. (Alaska river and harbor prejects e { during the fiscal year of 1938 which RESERVISTS uN starts July 1. Provision for the propriations bill which approved WAY Tu NORT“‘HW million "for continuing pro- work' is Included in the $195,335,000 War Department civil functions ap- posed work at the Bonneville Dam. Proposed appropriations for the new work in Alaska include: A Dry Pass, $79,000; Cordova har- One Craft Sails from Seat-|,or s106.000: Seward harbor. $70. 000; Egegik river, $5,000; Nome tle, Two Others Will Leave Next Week waterfront, $10,000. The committee reported that at least $295,000 eventually would be |gate tax dodging. The other Sena= tors are King, George, Walsh, La- Follette and Capper. Six members are also to be ap- pointed from the House to the Joint Congressional Committee. '19 PASSENGERS ABOARD YUKON FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, June 12. — Steamer Yukon sailed for Southeast and |Southwest Alaska ports at 9:30 o'- |clock this morning carrying 245 first class and 137 steerage passen- gers. | Passengers booked for Juneau in- jclude H. B. Stewart, Mrs. E. Egbert, Earl Lagergren, Miss Geraldine |Bodding, Barbara Winn, Margaret Hickey, Frank Hoffert, Walter P. |scott, Jr., Jean Paulkner, Ruth Os- bourne, Mary Lou Earling, L. W. Roenh, J. B. Warrack, Capt. A. Lane, Herb McLean, Joe McLean, Harry Wilson, Mrs, Charles Rood, George Rager. Black Cat, Maybe Figures in Does Big Damage! SEATTLE, June 12.—Bound for needed to complete the Cordova pro- Southeast Alaska on a training ject and $269,008 to finish revetment cruise, the U. 8. 8. Eagle 57 left last work at Nome. It also recommended night with 20 Naval Reserve offi- $1,800 for flood control work on cers and 24 enlisted Navy men on Lowell and Salmon creeks in Al- board. aska. On Monday the - destroyers Fox| > and Brooks will berth here to take The general belief that grasshop- 'nboard the University of Washing- pers make an excellent turkey feed ton Noval ROTC for a cruise to was not upheld in experiments at Alaska, {Oklahoma A. and M. College. $2,500 Jndx_ment LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 12. ~Maybe & black cat is only in- cidental, but a $2,500 judgment { today stood against Marion | Wright, 19, Her night club com- panions, Nira Dunham and Lois Pryor sued for $1,500 for in- juries. They claimed Marion drove over a black cat and then ran into a freight train,