The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 21, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7516. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIET FLIERS LAND, VANCOUVER, WASH. BASQUE ARMY REFORMED ON NEW DEFENSE Tattered Remnants En- trenched — Exposed to Shells from Sea, Air CASTROURDIALES, Spain, June 21.—Exposed to the ceaseless shell- ing from the sea and bombings from the air, the tattered remnants of the Basque Army entrenched themselves in the Galdames Moun- tains to fight to save Santander from the fate of Bilbao. The weary forces of the Basques have been concentrated in the hills which parallel the highway about one third of the way from Bilbao to this city which is 30 miles from Bilbao, on the Bay of Biscay. Without sleep for five days and without food for almost as long, the Basque Army is also hampered by thousands of refugees. Catholic Sehools Are Cloged Today in Bagria Lal}d' Conbeiiacual Tnktitistions, Are Turned Secular by Decree = A e L MUNICH, June 21.—Hundreds of thousands of Catholic school chil-| dren quit parochial schools today all over the predominantly Cath- olic Bavaria in obedience to the Géverfithent’s™ drder -issolvirig the schools. i The order dissolved ‘fl\e Séhools, and made them- sesuléir - institu- tions. ? The authorities insisted they| closed the Catholic “schoels with the consent of the parents. The decree alone cyeatqd in'Mun- ich and Upper Bavaria the closing of 966 confessionsf turning them..into jsecular institu- tions. FAIR DATES SET | FOR SEPT. 01 Directors Re-elect Officer: | schools and ®d.Ry arrivals here, over the Rich- ;down to the edge of the Big Delta 18 Hurt ‘Bighteen "persons were injured recently when rioting occufred between pickets und non-strikers in front of the Hethicliem’Steel Company plant in Johnstown, Pa., Governor George H. Eurle rushed state troopers . strike_zone. Strikers claim 10,000 of the plant’s 15000 workers have joined the walkout, Photo shows strikers grappling with fo, palice , , which. is _part of the CIO moveme: in Johnstown, Pa., Steel Strike Riots nt to-organize the steel workers, those who refuscd to quit work. GOVERNMENT OF| PREMIER BLUM IS OVERTHROWN Camille Chautemps to At- . ! tempt to Form New Cab- i -inet as Troops Move PARIS, June 21—Trucks filled | with mobile guards rumbled today along the boulevards of the French | tial trategic points as twice | Premier Camille Chautemps at- tempted to assemble a new Cabinet | to lead France out of her gov- ernmental crisis. " Steel-helmeted guards deployed' in front of the Senate to prevent any demonstration against that' body which overthrew Socialist Leon Blunt's Government by re- fusing to grant a decree of powers 10 deal with the financial crisis. Chautemps, Secretary of State in the retiring Cabinet, began a series of conferences with party leuders to determine support. HOLZHEIMER 18 ol Giant Hotel to Be Built, v Mt. McKi BLACK RAPIDS GLAGIER TAKES JUMP FORWARD Reported to Have Moved 400 Feet in Two Days —At Edge of Big Delta FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 21.—| The Black Rapids Glacier is report- ardson “Highway, to have moved Riyer, less than one mile from Col. Revélle’s Black Rapids Glacier road- house. s Pilot ‘Harold Gillam, from Cor- dova, flew. over the glacier and re- ported three lakes have been form-| ed “on 'the icy surface, one large enough fora plane to land on. Shauld .the lakes -overflow, sud- denly, a flood might be created: . Otficials |first step.in' the long range Alaska nley Natl. Park WASHINGTON, June 21. — The | Interlor Department discloses plans to build a giant hotel in the Mount McKinley National Park and con- struction will begin about July 15. The hotel will cost $350,000 and will accommodate 120 guests. said the “hotel is e travel program.” RE-NOMINATED BODY OF SLAIN | BY PRESIDENT WIFE; WEALTHY {_)Sistrict Altf;;el{UPB?fore MAN; Is FuuNn enate for Reappoint- ment, Present Position Disappeared Last Decembe from Nursing Home in Los“Angeles * WASHINGTON, Jun 21.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today sent to the {ination of William A. Holzheimer, . 8. Distriet “Attorney in the First Division, Alaska. One hundred men are to be em- ployed on the comstruction of the hotel which is to be operated’ by the Alaska Railroad. It is planned to have the hotel readly for the grand opening by June of next year. — e “BACK T0 WORK" ORDERS ISSUED, STEEL CONCERNS iero’Hour Set at 7 o'Clock LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 21— pijgirict Attorney Holzheimer is The "body of ‘@’ Ted-haired woman 'completing his first four-year term found lying ‘under a house near ;¢ pigtrict Attorney in this Divi- what appeared to bé a grudely dug gion following his appointment in grave, has been indentiffed as that 1933 phy the President. He was of Mrs. Alice Jones, wife of a formerly District Judge in the Sec- wealthy "optical company OWNerl, ongq Division, Nome, during the Harold Jones, Wilson Administration and is one Jones said his wife disappeared ,f the pest known men in the last, December from a nursing home merritory. He practiced law here when she had seemingly recovered‘,md in Ketchikan for many years from & nervous aflment. and has been a leading figure in Malcolm Alberts, aged 10, found pemocratic politics in Alaska. the body when he crawled under e the house to retrieve a baseball. A T MASS FLIGHT, moment later. he emerged from under the house screaming in ter- ror. | Detectjves found what appeared' to be two grayes under the house.| White River Pass, on the east-| INTERNA PARK PLANNED WASHINGTON, June 21. —Block out a section of Can- ada, dipping southwestward toward Skagway, Alaska, by drawing a line from the Chil- koot Pass to the Chisana and ern border, and you have what | is proposed as the World’s| first International Park. ‘ Alaska Delegate Anthony | J. Dimond and United States| TIONAL involves International Law, or skirt the rugged coast, consid- ered hazardous in winter. The two Legislators, Dele- gate Dimond and Senator Schwellenbach, marched to the White House and laid the plan before President Roose- velt. The two said they found the President “very receptive, es- pecially to the idea of a park.” It is further explained that .Senate for reappointment the nom-| { Pilot E., E.. Parmenter said the glacier*hag moved 400 feet m two |days and on one occasion jumped 1200 feet in our hour, according to | imarkers. —Name Ralph Martin to Handle Event Tomorrow Morning in - {An; examination indicated the, - | woman' Nigd"been shot in the head Youngstown . after_being assaulted. |" A“wedding ring engraved, “Hal CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 21— to Alice, August 31, 1912 was | IS UNDERWAY The Southeast Alaska Fair in Ju-| The temperature is 91 in the “Little Steel” has issued a “back neau will be held September 8 .9,/shade, the same as on June 10, to work” marching order with the 10 and 11 this year, it has been de-|which was the hottest in 18 years. zero hour set at 7 o'clock tomorrow cided at a meeting of the Fair As-| sociation Directors. Secretary W. S. Pullen has been authorized to engage R. B. Martin to handle the annual event again. Officers of the Board have been re-elected for the ensuing year as follows: J. F. Mullen, President; J. P. Anderson, Vice-President; William B. Kirk, Treasurer, and W. S. Pullen, Secretary., Other mem- bers of the board are John Reck, R. E. Robertson and M. S. Whittier. Anderson, Whittier and Robertson, whose terms expired, have been re- elected. 1 | Governor Gets Commission for Another Four Years Gov. John W. Troy today received his commission of appointment from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to continue as Chief Executive of the| Territory. The Governor's appointment was certified as of May 27, 1937, and will continue for four years, or until May 27, 1941. With M. E. Monagle administer- ing the oath of office, the Gov-| ernor was sworn in this afternoon | Pilot Gene Meyring said a body jof water, like a lake, has disap- peared from Endicott Glacier. e Students. Pay Tuition Costs In Blood Money i | money helps pay the tunition of Hospitals frequently ~call for' blood donors—at $25 a pint—from the student body. Some donors have given as many as five trans- fusions in nine months. | “It doesn’t hurt,” said Gne. “You, just feel a little sleepy when you! get through.” For half an hour after the stu-| dent has given blood he rests, sips orange juice, and then returns to his room. “Its just another way to earn money,” commented one donor. morning and involving about 24,- 000 men in the strike ravaged Youngstown area. Federal mediators today strove’ desperately in Cleveland to effect’ a settlement to the back to work challenge, announced by officials of | the Youngstown Sheet Tube and Republic Steel and gave a swift| reply that as “soon as somebody ' goes near those plants, there will: be trouble. There are s0 many men down there they won't go in.” John Mayor, director of the Steel Gurdler, Chairman of the Media- some University of ‘Texas students. tion Board, announced the com- Hyde, of Santa Ana, California. In! panies determined not to enter into contracts with CIO. CATHOLIC BOYS AT CAMP FOR 2 WEEKS found on a finger of the dead gAN DIEGO, Cal, June 21. woman’s hand. Twelve Naval planes are bound on e RO v 'a 3,000 mile flight from the Canal |Zone to this port on the longest TUUH PAHT'ES 'nonstop mass flight in naval history {of the United States. The planes uN ALEXANDER {took off for here at noon and it is ed men are aboard the planes. Woman Passes As |expected the flight will take 24 charge of one group is Julia Ann| | hours. Twelve officers and 60 enlist- ‘Two travel groups are bound from Seattle to Skagway aboard the stea- mer Dorothy Alexander to go down the Yukon River and return to the AUSTIN, Tex, June 21. — BIOOd'Orgamzlng Committee, and Tom Coast over the Alaska Railroad. In BUDAPEST, June 21.— — Paul 3 {Kuszenda, 39, was imprisoned for her group are seventeen besides her- | " " seu‘g i - |obtaining money under false pre- W. A. Shedd, of Berkeley, Cali- (tenses, and was put in the men’s fornia, is in charge of the Ame,i_lsecflon ‘When the prison doctor can Express tour group of 17 Yu-;lnter discovered the prisoner was kon-Circlers. a woman, she confessed to being Julia Ann Hyde has long operated Maria Kuszenda. i a travel service in her home city,| She said she had worn men’s Leaving by truck this afternocn, known as the Julia Ann Hyde Tra-| a dozen or so boys of the Cnthollcgvel Service, and, though often in parish are now established at the|Alaska herself, has never before camp site near the Shrine of st. ' now personally conducted a tour Terese where they are to spend a|north. She pronounced her present two-week vacation, one quite a success. iclothes since she was 12, had fought for 18 months in the front line dur- ing the world war, and subsequent- ly participated in burglaries, for which she had served prison terms as a man. i ) /| The boys are Kenny Thibodeau,! ‘Jnck'y Pasquan, Robert Pasquan, {Emanuel Suarez, Harold Michael- son, Merritt Monagle, Bob McMan- Fame Catches Up After 1,200 Years 'citrus raisers. One couple, Mr. and !Mrs. O. S. Johnston, of Santa Ana, Most of her charges are from Orange County, California, and are 18 Hours, 17 Minutes Possible Sunshine with Alaska Secretary E. W. Grif- fin and Harry G. Watson, Secretary to the Governor, as witnesses. PRINCETON, N. J, June 21.— New evidence that John Damascus, e eighth century theologian of the Jail Term Made Easy |Eastern Church, was both the Fa. e ther of Byzantine Music and Father’ EVANSVILLE, Ind.—When everof Byzantine Art” was disclosed by James H. Yangley, 43, has time on Prof. Albert M. Friend Jr., of his hands, he can drop around to Princeton Univérsity. A manuscript 4 George . Shaw. are making their second trip to Alaska; the others are all first- {¥ners. ’ The only members of her group not from Orange County are Mr. and Mrs. William Ellsworth, cattle ranchers from Safford, Arizona. Others in her party are: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mefer, Mr. and Mrs. J. us, Chuck Notar, Bob Thibodeau, Frank and Harry Cashen and Joe Michaelson are scheduled to leave for the camp mext| e —— KARNES BACK |er Bureau. report shows. Today; Longest Day With 18 hours and 17 minutes of possible sunshine, today is the long- est day of the year, the U.S. Weath- The sun arose this morning at 2:53 and will set tonight at 9:10. Virtually all days for the next week or so will the jail for a day or two. In city ton expedition to the Greek Orth- Education, who went to Ketchikan court, he was convicted of drunk- odox monastaries on Mount Althos, to confer with Superintendent Kelly en driving and given a 30-day jail odox monasteries on Mount Athos, of that city on text books, returned term—to be served in his “spare furnished the basis for identifica- to Juneau on the Dorothy ' Alexan-|J, Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. time.” tion. A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of| der today. Roy Smith and their five children, Myron, Roy, Richard, Allen, and Virginia Lee. Also with her are Mrs. John D. Rinard, Mr. and Mrs. John ;be approximately the same length, but from then on they will start to become visibly shorter as the sun point, Moore, and Lulu B. Finley. | | | i | {bach have been considering | will be an International Play- Senator Lewis B. Schwellen-|the block of scenic country the scheme for some time. ground for citizens of both They hope to obtain from | countries. In exchange for the' swings back from the farthest north | the Wagner-Van Nuys Canada sufficient land to pro- i Canadian concessions, . the vide “for an inside route” for American fliers between Skagway and the main body of Alaska. | At present, aviators mustfwas going into the plan fur- ‘fly over Canadian soil, which ther. United States would make Skagway a free port of entry.! Both Dimond and Schwel- lenbach said the President| Dimond Believes Route from Moscow to United States to Be Best irom West Side of Pole e A SOVIET FLIER UP EARLY FOR * WALK IN RAIN Interested in Trees, Not Plane—Instruments Giv- en to Official Boal:d VANCOUVER, Wash,, June 21.— Dynamic swarthy Pilot Chekaloff, whose hands never left the mono- plane on the 63-hour flight from Moscow over the North Pole to this reservation, was out of bed at the crack of dawn today, &bso- lutely not interested in airplanes, while his fellow fliers slept. Chekaloff walked briskly in the rainy morning, scanned Vancouver Barracks and tried to find out what kind of trees were growing here. Ambassador Troyanovsky, speak- ing from the front porch of Gen- eral Marshall's home, said the flight was only a forerunner of; future and similar experimental; and scientific flights. He said the fliers will remain in the United States about a month and will go to Washington. Remove Barographs The fliers were met by an Army and Civilian Board and they pro- ceeded to the plane where Chek- aloff .directed the removal of the two barographs that hold sealed records of the course of the flight, altitudes maintained, take off and landing. The board members said the official barographs were in proper condition, seals unbroken and will be sent to Washington for checking. Visitors Barred A large crowd surrounded the airport today, the same as yester- day, but visitors are still barred from the reservation. The fliers expected to leave this afternoon at 3 o'clock for Oakland in a specially charted plane. The Soviet ship will be taken down and sent to Moscow. s Anti-Lynching Bill Approved WASHINGTON, June 21. — The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved by a vote of 13 to 3, of anti-lynch- ] | | ing bill. BOISE, 1dsho, June 31—Alaska Delegate Anthony 7. Dimond, com | menting on the Russian flight, call- ed it experimental. “The route might be feasible commercially, but I doubt it. I be- lieve it would be cheaper and alsa| a less distance to cross the Arctic, west of the North Pole. There is a future in the Trans-Arctic route, and I believe there will be a reg-| ular service between Russia and, Alaska,” said the Delegate. Delegate Dimond said he did not, see any military significance in the flight, AVIATION BASE ON ALEUTIANS, NOW PLANNED Further Exploratory Work to Be Carried on from Sitka, Is Report WASHINGTON, June 21. — The House Naval Committee has ap- proved the $50,000,000 auxiliary shlpl construction program designed to bring the Navy to the greatest ef- ficiency within a few years. Rear Admiral Cook, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aéronautics, dis- closed the Navy is studying exten- sion of the existing Naval Air sta- tions and planned some ‘“explora- tory” work in Alaska this summer from the base at Sitka. Linked with this work is the possible es- tablishment of an aviation base on the Aleutian Islands. Alaska Oyste Bill Boosted WASHINGTON, June 21. — The House has approved and sent to the Senate the bill designed to aid the development of the oyster cul- ture in Alaska. The bill authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to lease the bottoms of Alaskan waters for oyster cultivation commercially. Constitutio Amendment Looms On Child Labor WASHINGTON, June 21. — The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved of the Van- g B R LOW VISIBILITY FORCES AIRMEN T0 COME DOWN Fail to Make Goal, But Cover 5,300 Miles in Sixty-three Hours GREAT ACHIEVEMENT IN AVIATION MADE Plane to Be-—lismantled— Birdmen Are to Fly to San Francisco VANCOUVER, Washington, June 21.—The three Soviet fliers, in an attempted non-stop flight from Moscow to Oakland, landed here at 8:20 o'clock Sunday morning. Chief Pilot Chekaloff said the landing was due t¢ poor visibility. The plane was in good condition and had sufficient gasoline for 750 miles more flight. The three fliers were all feeling fine after the flight of nearly 5~ 300 miles me¢le in 63 hours. They failed to break the previous non- stop flight record, 5,667 miles in 58 hours and 20 minutes, made by French fliers Codas and Rossi in August, 1935, New York to Syria. Aviation Immeortality The three men from Russia laid upon the new world’s doorstep @& claim for aviation immortality and @ challenge for flying geniuses of the world's greatest nations by pi- {loting the red svinged monoplane nearly 5300 miles nonstop from Moscow, across the top of the world to this American Army post on the banks of the Columbia River. The conquerers of one of the world’s most hazardous flights in aviation, fell short ‘Oakland, California. Only Few Witnesses Only a few witnesses were on hand to see the end of their jour- ney other than themselves. Some amazed soldiers and three University ROTC students witness- ed the end of the flight and saw the big plane come down to o safe landing, but as soon as word was flashed the fliers had landed, hun- ° dreds, then thousands began com- |ing to Vancouver, by plane and by autos and Sunday was a big day here. . At Controls Entire Trip Swarthy pllot Chekaloff never relinquished the controls for more. than two and one half days. He, as well as his two companions on the flight, were astounded at the acclaim quickly bestowed upon them, The Birdmen went to sleep 5001 after landing. ’ To Dismantle Plane i The plane is to be dismantled and then they will late today fly to San Ffancisco in the company of Russian Ambassador Troyan=- ovsky who flew here to greet them. Chekaloff said the most trying portions of the flight came as a re- sult of stormy weather from' Bering Sea, Franz Josef Land and Patrick Henry Island near the North Pole. The fliers received congratula- tions by wire from President Roose~ velt and they talked with Stalin, in Moscow, over the telephome, Warm up to Flight ‘Alaska and the Pacific Coast be- gan to “warm up” to the flight of the Soviet fliers as they neared the coast territory. News flashes wepe carried in extras by newspapers and broadcast stations gave unlimited time to the progress of the flight. several coast stations remaining op- en after midnight and until the Sunday morning regular hours to tell of the flight. ' As The Empire went to press last Saturday, the last information was dated 1:45 o'clock in the afternoon from Edmonton, stating the plane was passing over th® confluences of the Mackenzie and Flat rivers at Fort Simpson. Flashes from Plane At regular intervals from” then until the plane finally landed at Varcouver, Washington, flashes were received from the plane. In- queries were constantly being m: e of The Empire on the latest news. About 6 o'clock there was a lull and then a flash was received stat- ing the plane was changing its course and was heading out toward the Pacific over the Canadian Rock- fes. Presumably the weather might have been bad along the interior jroute which was expected to be followed. But the airmen made no denburg proposal for a constitu- tional amendment to permit Con- gress to legislate against Child Labor. comment except to say “All is well.” Suddenly. out of the air came a (Continued on Page Three)