The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 1, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7525. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1937. Japanese, Russia SITUATION I§ PLavs oL iop REPORTED AS 'VERY STRAINED' Tokyo Demands that Soviet | withdraw All Forces | from Disputed Area MOSCOW REPLIES BY | SENDING GUNBOATS Nippon Cabinet SaysReady for Any Emergency—De- ‘ fends Manchuokuo Right TOKYO, July 1.—Japanese re-| ports here tonight said five more Soviet gunboats had appeared to- day at Sennufu Island in the Amur River. | 8 These advices, together with con-| § tinued Soviet occupation of the is- land and also what the Japanese| said was Moscow’s failure to reply to Tokyo's protest against “in-| vasion,” heightened critical appre-| hension here. Cabinet in Session The Japanese Cabinet has decided | at an emergency session that the‘ Jimmy Mattern, famed Ameri- Russo-Japanese crisis can be snt-i can . who recently an- tled peaceably if the Soviet willl jounced he would attempt a immediately withdraw all armed pon-stop flight from Oakland, forces from the territory where the| Cal, to Moscow “within the scene of disturbance occurred. The| next three weeks.” Mattern Japanese claim that the trouble has| made his announcement at a The plane he will use on the | Twenty-four giant @ |ate with them, SKY CRUISERS WINGING NORTH - T0 ALEUTIANS |24 Giant’ Navy Plines, 5| Heavy Cruisers to Par- | ticipate in Maneuvers | | SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 1. — The | greatest number of navy sky cruis- ers ever sent to the far North under orders for intensive air maneuvers lin the Alaska Aleutian areas this| |month winged toward Seattle today | jon a non-stop flight. naval patrol planes, carrying 35 officers and 120 enlisted men under Lieut. Comman- (der Robert Fuller, began the 1500- | |mile flight today at 7:15 am. The !flight tender Langley is awaiting them in Seattle. | Details for the Aleutian sky man- leuvers have not yet been announc- led, but it is known that six sky ns Are Mobilizing Armies ——— e lpauol squadrons have been desig- nated to make maneuvers. Five heavy cruisers in the fleet to oper- | ral A a"ts the Northampton, B e |Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Chicago | o land Louisville, will leave holiday | Among ports to be visited are gitka, Wrangell, Ketchikan, Juneau, | Auk Bay, Cordova, Valdez. The ves- | 0' Eldflrl Ma" |sels will remain in Alaskan waters | juntil July 18. The tenders Langloy‘ and Sandpiper will remain until, % . Ty 2 |Two Liquor Unit Men Are SKAGWAY, Alaska, July 1.— (Special to Empire)—On June 22 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis D. Judd, 2 MISSING MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALL-CONGRESS TAX TEAM. The hunt is on in congress for tax-dodgers. The joint congressional investigating committee announced that names of alleged tax evaders would be made public. Left to right: Sen Arthur Capper (R-Kan), Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga), Sen. Robert M. LaFollette (Prog-Wis/, Rep. Allen T. Trcadway (R-Mass), Sen. David I. Walsh (D-Mass), Rep. Frank Crowther (R-NY), Rep. Fred M. Vinson (D-Ky), Rep. Thomas H. Cullen (D-NY), Rep. Jere Cooper (D-Tenn); seated, Sen. Pat Harrison (D-Miss) and Rep. Robert L. Doughton (D-NC), chairman. INTERNATIONAL "ROAD BOOSTED N PARK PLAN literated with slides, trees and | Schwellenbach Advan ces and it would appear that the have got into some trouble the old trail is practically ob- PRESIDENT Iy THREATENED WITH DEATH LETTER WRITER IS ARRESTED IN - NEW ENGLAND, - SEVERE CHARGE Former Deputy U. S. Mar- shal at Seattle Taken in Custody—Case Has Ex- tended 16 Months BOSTON, Mass., July 1. — | Federal officers have arrest- 1r.'d Morton Wainwright, 72, of Withrop, Massachusetts, and charged him with writing let- |ters threatening the death of President Franklin D. Roose- velt. 3 The letters have been re- ceived at the White House during a sixteen month period and have constantly been growing in severity. At first little attention was i{paid to the letters but lately |they took on such an aspect ithat the authorities took steps to make an arrest. | Both Postal authorities, Se- | p Azt | 1 . inspired the State of Manchukuo| Tuncheon in honor of the three | The three patrol squadrons iving| Charged with Second ! Fairbanks, Alaska, staried to | with pridges 2t arey. | :Yukon Proposal as Boon |cret Service and other offi- 0" combine its armies With Japan-| Soviet airmen who flew from. | (9 here _today ob. {hic_gnitop D Muid walk to Lakeé Bénnefl over CF vty ST e % “World Pence” cérs took up the casé and the T b, forohs’ | Moscow fo Vamcouver, Wash, |flight to Seattle aré the VP-, VP-12| egree Murder koo, Pass Governor's Office in Juneau to- | 0 or cace s b¥ie OIAL AN (F Was prepared| |and VP-6. The two have mot been re- | day to authorize a search party | % arrest is announced today. | for any eventuality if Russia as- sumed a warlike attitude. Both armies are reported mobil-| izing along the Amur River betwcen{ Manchoukuo and Siberia where the| Japanese army reported its artillery| had sunk a Russian warship, dis-| abled another and forced a third to fleet. flight holds only enough gaso- line for a 5000-mile trip, but Mattern plans to refuel while in the air over Fairbanks, Al- aska. He plans to hop alone. PRICE AVERAGE FALLS BACK TO 21 | EXCHANGE PROTESTS | MOSCOW, July 1.—The Japanese | Aboard the planes are 35 officers| SEATTLE, land 120 enlisted men under Lieut.|of the Federal |Commander Robert Fuller. i Piot L. F, Barr " Married;Couple July 1.—Twn agenis Alcohol Tax Unit today were accused of fatally slug- ging an elderly merchant who was engaged in an act of charvity. ! Prosecutor B. Gray Warner filed! charges against E, T. Kelly and| | Leonard Regan after a r:cron(‘llai {Jury found Fritz Muller, 6l-year-| old meat dealer, had died Friday| as a result of unnecessary violence in the course of an investigation for an alleged violation of the law. ported at Log Cabin or Bennett Jackson Makes Queer Statement Coming North on Probe| WASHINGTON July 1. — Strong . impetus to proposed Interna- \tional Highway to the Northern tip of Alaska came today when U. S. [ sen: B. Schwellenbach “]Jl'upusx‘d that Canada join the Unit- led States in the erection of an In- ternational Park from the south- | western tip of the Yukon Territory. | “If the establishment of the park SEATTLE, July 1.—Charles E.lis accomplished, there would be no for the two missing. the Lewis or on Fishing; | The President has treated the letters with no concern but not so the officers. | Wainwright was formerly a Deputy United States Mar- hal at Seattle. DISTINGUISHED Jackson, Deputy Commissioner of;doubt justification of our govern-| Fisheries, one of the party of five,ment in offering to bear two-thirds| sailing today on the Brant for the!of the ex in extending thv‘ Northland to investigate the reports Pacific Highway into Alaska,” he of Japanese invasion of the Ameri-|Wrote Dr. Ernest H. Gruening, di-| an fisheries in the North Pacific, rector of the Division of Territories predicted that the world’s fishing and Island Possessions. | c AT MATAN“SKA The international park idea was| banks will soon be dominated by (officially sponsored by S('namr‘ Ambassador to Moscow, Mamoru Shigemitsu, has pressed his empire’s | demand that Russian troops be im- | mediately withdrawn from the dis-| puted Amur River Islands. Both| countries exchanged sharp protests| after yesterday's clash between So- viet gunboats and. Japanese land | i forces. The Ambassador said Ja-| Due Here Shortly GUEST SPEAKER, CHAMBER LUNCH Sir John Jeffrey Tells Al- aska Impressions — Im- lach Talks on Herring | | At the inquest witnesses said the Russ S H E E LY JANUARY LEVEL‘ [agenu struck Mueller with a black- "M 3 jack as he was delivering a weekly | ‘MISS Mary Kathen.ne Sands’gm package of meat to an irvalid. | IS RES I G N I N G ; ‘ : of Atlin Is Bride of |They said Muelier fell down a bank | Concise Review Is Given| Juneau Aviator and the agents stepped on his head | fOl' First SIX Months | and feet. The agents were investi-| | | igating an anonymous letter of Present Year nations with the fastest boats. “The Japanese invasion, if there Schwellenbach and Alaska Delegate, is one, is serious, but no more than| Anthony J. Dimond 10 days ago af- | the invasion of any country. It ter the two officials had mulled the| won't be long ‘ before all fishing Possibility over for some time.. ! banks will become international and| Senator Schwellenbach also wrote| 1t was “Scotch Day” at the Cham= the best hauls will fall, ndt to the Dr- Gruening that it “would con-iper of Commerce luncheon today at nation whose waters are being fish- Stitute. an outstanding contribution|percy’s and the members had the \’L‘d. but to the nations with the larg- | 'O the cause of world peace.” | pleasure of listening to two of Scot= and fastest boats,” dee The proposed area of 20,000 square|land’s able representatives < Sir Married at a 10 o'clock ceremony|caiq g pootlegger was deliverir pan intends to protect fully Man-| yesterday morning, with scores of |yoonshine to the apartment. { choukuo's claim to territory. friends from Atlin and vicinity as- R et S After a two-hour conference with| NEW YORK, July 1.—Impelled sembling for the large reception be- | R E sTR I cT' u N s | | s iy . Turns Administration of Colony Over to Leo B. Jacobs for Present the Soviet Foreign Affairs Comissar, |in part by a heavy European specu- | fore noon, Pilot and Mrs. L. F. Barr Shigemitsu said the situation “is/lation, commodity prices surged up- } (Mary Katherine Sands) are due very strained” and “no progress has/ward in fhe first quarter of 1937 to arrive in Juneau aboard the Al- been made.” |and fell back in the Second, finish-|aska Air Transport Stinson late to- |ing the half-year at appmximatelyjday or tomorrow. Pilot Sheldon Simmons left for B e |opening levels. | Twn s u s P E c T s The general situation at the start jof the year was one of light con- sumer inventories, unusually low | !world supplies and restricted pro- ,duction of many staples, running head on into rising industrial and | consumer demand. | Higher quotations stemming from |this bullish signal were prodded —r— |into runaway advances in several . |products by Britain's announce- MOb OfTonhousandHowhmem of her rearmament program. Atlin last night to congratulate the! couple, and returned here at 7 am.! today. Mrs, Barr, who visited here last spring with Mrs. T. J. Jacobsen and | Mrs. Lyman Hodges, was raised in Atlin and met Pilot Barr there when he was in charge of the North Cana- dian Air Express. The two will make their home in Juneau where Mr. Barr is now as- sociated with Alaska Air Transport. PALMER, Alaska, |Sheely is resigning as General Man- | {ager of the Matanuska Colony.end, July 1.—Ross ON TRANSIENTS WASHINGTON, July 1.—A WPA| survey of 12 representative cities| shows a revival of restrictions| against transient workers, along| with hobos, bums and tramps. is turning over the administrstion of the colony to Leo B. Jacobs, As- sistant General Manager. Sheely wll take a vacation cf one Jackson. ——————— miles, including all portions of the‘_y;,m. Jeffrey, former Under Secre- |Yukon Territory now dividing tary of State for Scotland, who Southeast Al from the rsmaln-icxaxmcd Edinburgh as his home, and |der of the Territory would be setw. j. Imlach, who comes from the jaside for the International Park, he same section of Scotland, but for TREASURY HAS said {many years has operated a herring | In exchange for the establish-reduction plant at Port Benny and jment of the park, Senator Schwel-|is widely known to the Alaskan fish- Troubles stacked against the tran-| sient,—along with railway police| and watchdogs—include difficulty | month before his resignation is ef- fective, on August 1 Jacobs will be in charge until a SMALL DEFICIT, |lenbach said he believed the United | States would be justified in creating a free port at Skagway. ing industry. Sir John, father of J. 8. Jeffrey, | well known Juneau resident and Al- r is appointed interests ~ and in qualifying for WPA jobs, ineli-| new man: BIGGEST DEBT] The International Park would be| traveling salesman, brought | -1a boon to Alaska aviation, providing |the Chamber an interesting account Abeut City Hall. and Metals Climb Mining operation 4 L2 1 This attracted speculators, nota- Ye“ Hang Hlm bly in London and gspecially in met- lals. Copper soared to 17 cents a INGLEWOOD, Cal., July 1. — A|poung from the 11% quoted on De- 33-year-old transient, Luther Dow, cemper 31, 1936. Lead boomed to who is said to have been dishhonor-;,m cents, a 32 per cent jump from ably gischarged fram the Navy, is|the year's opening price; tin swept held on suspicion of murder in con-|from 51% to 67% cents a pound. nection with the kidnaping and| mpe Agsociated Press weighted Slaying of fhree little ‘girls. Aty lindex of 35 important wholesale A crowd of 2000 irate citizens commogities climbed from 89.22 per pressed about the city hall l1asticeng of 1936 levels at the first of night as Dow was transferred. there|the year to 98,14 cents on April 5. from the Los Angeles police szatiun,].lvbis was an advance of 10 per cent Shouts of “hang him” went Uplang carried the index to the highest as the manacled prisoner was led | |point reached since late 1929. into the city hall, but no move was The non-ferrous metal made to wrest him from the W’ice‘ychalked up the widest gain, 35 per Handkerchief Implicates cent at the peak: Other industrial Dow was arrested in Los A"Eele‘f" staples, with steel scrap and bil- In his pocket was found a wnmanSEIel‘s setting the pace, pushed 15 per handkerchief which Mrs. Merle EV“cgnt ahead. group | ALASKA GIVEN - $15,000 MORE | - FOR SURVEYS 'Special Allotment Made by | | PWA to Carry on Work | | in Public Land Areas | WASHINGTON, July 1. — The| | Public Works Administration an- | nounced today the allotment of half |a million dollars to the (}eneral‘ Land Office, Interior Department, | for survey and re-survey of public lands in 19 States and Alaska. i gibility for social security benefits ” and employed antagonism toward of a recently purchased ranch will non-residents. |require the full time of Sheely. — > — \ Sheely was loaned by the Uni- The quantity of candy consumed | versity of Alaska in March, 1935, in the United States has increased|to do initial colony surveying, later ach year since 1884 and reached|in charge of construction work and an all-time high in the last 12 he became General Manager in No- months. | vember, Germ of Monopolies tively few cotton mills in South Carolina or other Southern States.| New England did the count spinning. But there was a supply of cheap labor in the South and (Monopoly is discussed in this last of a series of columns on & “planned nation.”) By PRESTON GROVER {Fiscal Year Reveals U. United " |rounded out the fiscal year wi Wage-Haur Bi” HOldS the biggest debt in the history the country his sixty million dollars. WASHINGTON, July 1.—One of cotton was grown near by, so mills lan “Inside route” without their be- §.!coming entangled in international |law, At present’ Alaskan aviators :lll\lh( skirt the rugged coast, a haz- (ardous trip during the winter, if {they wish to avoid the red taps of WASHINGTON, July 1. — The | eRtering Canadian territory. States Treasury has| The park also would provide a ith the Playground for Americans and Can- and | 2dians, sponsors declared. President of | Roosevelt is reported “very recep- |tive” to the proposal. Is in Hole by $34,- 400,000,000 mallest deficit in six years Showing the greatest income since | G o 1921, the Treasury had on hand a ' billion dollars in the government H coffers. With spending reduced from | L this year, the President showed in| ris Budget report that revenuestop| PALMER, Alaska, July 1. — The estimate fifty or|Fourth of July Matanuska Colony | Committee announced today a hog Spending for ordinary govern-|calling contest for the holiday. This by revised ment purposes is said to exceed the will be the first time pig calls will|should thrive here. of his impressjons of America and Alaska gleaned in the three months since he and Lady Jeffrey left their home in Scotland for an extended vacation. Climatic conditions in Southeast Alaska and in Edinburg compare favorably, he said, and the scenic grandeur which he had seen in the north should, he pointed out, be s great inducement to many tourists to Alaska. | “I van see a greal and prosperous future for your Territory with its ‘vlrtually untapped resources and |the wonderful recreation areas you have to offer,” Sir John said. I was particularly impressed with the great stands of timber coming up (on the steamer and it seems to me that the pulp and paper industry erett, mother of two of the girls| outraged and slain, said resembled | one of hers and which she believed | her daughter had when abducted.| Two women also identified him as| the man they saw playing with the children, later found murdered.| Increases in agricultural prices | during the first three months aver-| A sum of $15000 of the total] aged 10 per cent. Textiles managed|amount is set aside for survey by a slim margin to string along|Work in Alaska. i with the majority, while food prices MEANS EXTENSIVE SURVEYS | declined 8 per cent. Roosevelt Warning Halts Rise With the special allotment for the neat tricks the wage-hour bill began opening there. could perform would be to help es- tablish a monopoly in any one in- dustry or in several industries. Since the bill is intended to bene- fit labor instead of injuring it a the Southern drift was started. Un- doubtedly the New England mill- ers, fully supported by their em- . |forecast by seventy-five million dol-\have been heard in the valley. i Now suppose the l";“f"“‘h W:"B"'ghrs. The public debt now stands| . hour bill had been law at the time about $34,400,000,000 today, which is| the largest ever amassed. | The distinguished visitor spoke |highly of the warm reception he thad received since coming to Alaska and particularly in Juneau where he ' Held up by fog near Wrangell, the said he had been showered with | Canadian National liner, Prince Ru- |kindness. - PRINCE RUPERT DELAYED CTO“ICY-KCIIY |pert is to arrive in Juneau at 10 Discussing the herring industry Wedded, Anchorage vm. instead of at 6 pm. as origin- | with which he has been ussociated f mills in the South. New| i |ally scheduled. Announcement from for years, both here and abroad, of new s in the Sout g S ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 1‘7"1110 local C.N.R. office states that no Mr. Imlach brought out that his England likely would Arps "hA_L‘Bmmn H. Crossley and Miss Mary|change in the ‘sailing time, 11 pm, -—— (Continued on Page Three) IKelly were married here today. |1$ anticipated. ployes,. would have asked that min- imum wage levels be established to retard, if not prevent, the opering; |Alaska, it is expected that Public |wise administrator of the muuxnrlv however, as “Eddie the Sailor.” |Survey crews now in the field can |likely would attempt to avoid such The scion of a prominent Los ;n:;al.;i:oismznygmr ‘;duz;fila;ggieand their work and it is probable |an outcome—but the pressure would Angeles family is also being held, ;nq ' individuals bought heavny’n will make possible putting more be there, both from owners and emn- but he is lying in a drunken stupor | ooqinst future needs. men in’ the field, according to ployes. in a hospital, In no conditibn for| =\ George A. Parks, District Cadastral questioning. Engineer. ¥ Park employees did not identify him The speculative frenzy spread from (Continued on'Pnge Three) For instance, take spinning. Thir- ity years ago there were compiri- | (Continued on Page Seven)