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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL.L, NO. 7533, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SECOND FLI S — — Navy U. S. CRUISER NORTHAMPTON ANCHORS HERE Division 4 Flagship Arrives| Saturday Nig?]t—To Re- main Until Wednesday Uncle Sam’s fighting-trim heavyf cruiser, the flagship Norf.ha.mptun.l’ stood anchored today in the middle of Gastineau Channel for all Ju- neau to admire. One of four ships under the di- rection of Admiral W. 8. Anderson, | who is aboard the Northampton, | the 10,000-ton cruiser arrived Sat-| urday at 10 p.m. just a bare few; minutes after the arrival of the Princess Alice and shortly before the arrival of the Mount McKinley. The cruiser, carrying approxi- mately 500 sailors and 60 marines, will remain in port until Wednes- | day morning, at which time she will steam for Yakutat Bay. There, | the three other ships in division 4| —the Pensacola, which has .left Sitka for Cordova; the Salt Lake City, which is now at Auk Bay; and the Houston——will join the Northampton in maneuvers until| July 17. ‘The four 10,000-too cuis-| ers will then sail south on the| Pacific Ocean to Portland, Oregon, arriving there on July 21 Comes from Wrangell The Northampton came to the Capital City - from. Wrangell, leav- ing there Saturday morning after a two-day stay and heading north at a speed of 18 knots per hour. The heavy cruiser, which winters at Long Beach, Cal, came north | from Port Angeles on July 3. A total of 605 feet in length, the | cruiser is seven years old—one of Uncle Sam’s modern specimens of‘ efficient war defense. The Pen-| sacola and the Salt Lake City, the first two heavy 10,000-ton | cruisers built after the naval limi- | tations agreement, have ten eight- | inch guns, but the Northampton | and the Houston, which were built | after the first two, have only nine | eight-inch cannons—a reduction in| guns to give more weight for de- | fensive qualities. In addition to the “heavy guns, which are grouped in three, re- volving turrets, the “Nerthampton has five anti-aircraft guns which can be aimed in any direction and which are believed by navy experts to be sufficiently powerful to keep antagonistic airplanes at a safe| distance. These are five-inch can- nons. Planes Aboard Four navy planes, which can be| catapulated from & short grooved | runway into the air, are lncludedi in the ship's equipment. 'Parts, which could be used for the as- sembling of a fifth plane, are also| "(Continued on Page Eight) AUK BAY HAS CRUISER FOR 3-DAY STAY Salt Lake City Drops An-| chor Early Sunday Morn- ing in Placid Waters Slipping quietly into the placid| waters of Auk Bay, the cruiser Salt| Lake City dropped anchor about 4 o'clock Sunday morning for a stay until Wednesday morning ‘when it leaves for Yakutat. All day Sunday, little boats hoy-| ered around the big vessel and| many visited the ship which is op-| ened, during the stay in Auk Bay, from 1 to 4 o'clock in the after- Craft Now in JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1937. PRICE TEN CENTS uneau an Detective Lieutenant Leroy Sand that Albert Dyer (above), a. street strangled and attacked the girls. Admiral Enjoys Alaska Scenery | For First Timel W. S. And;r;n, in Com- mand of Division, Is Aboard Northampton Admiral W. S. Anderson, dipping into the joys of Alaska for the first time aboard the U. 8. heavy cruiser Northamptin, told a report- er for The Empire he was impressed with the North Territory “for its magnificent scenery, its stimulating atmosphere and its energetic and hospitable people.” Admiral Anderson, a tall, athlet- ic-appearing man in his early 50's, assumed his duties over the Divis- ion 4 fleet, including the North- ampton, Salt Lake City, Houston and. Pensacola, a month ago. Prior to that time, he served as naval attache to the London em- bassy. While there, he had an op- portunity to study the panorama of passing world events in England. Admiral Anderson, who enjoys playing tennis, said he was eager to engage someone in Juneau in a net match. Admitting only to the fact that he “used to play fairly well,” Admiral Anderson has brought his tennis equipment along espec- fally for local challengers—and does not bar any comers. Explaining the trip of the North- ampton to the North, he declared it is part of the regular summer cruise. to give exercise and recrea- tion to the men and to permit them to see “the wonderful scenery and waterways” of Alaska. A second purpose, however, is to ‘enable Alaskans to see the, Unit- ed States navy vessels. It is desir- noon. | Shore leave began at 9 o'clock, yesterday morning and over 300 men enjoyed the hike along the| Fritz Cove road to Auk Lake and| scores went to Mendenhall glacier and out upon the icy mass. Blueberries along the highway suffered as the sailor men eagerly picked them and decldred them ex- | cellent. | Autoists going along the highway | able for people to see and know what their navy is doing and can do,” Admiral Anderson said. o - SAN FRANCISCO PARTY VISITS IN JUNEAU Dr. Benjamin Deitch, dentist, Dr. Morris J. Groper, physician, Al- bert A. Nossum, restaurant owner, |and Jesse J. Marks, broker, all of San Francisco, visited in Juneau gave the boys a “hitch” for part of their goings and comings, while passengers on the Princess Alice Saturday nigat. Cruiser in éhanfiel, Al@ ' In Auk Bay, of Heavy Class, The two navy craft, one in Gas»‘ ernn4 mnwnm:d in Los Angeles crossing guard, had confessed ihe brutal slaying of three little Inglewood, Cal., girls Jume 26. Dyer is shown as he appeared in custody at the District Attorney’s office after his purported confession, in which he was quoted as saying he tineau Channel, and the other in "Auk Bay, are of the heavy criuser type. The U.S.S. Norwampton, is one of a class of six heavy criusers com- pleted during 1929 and 1930 known as the “Augusta” class, the others being Augusta, Chester, Chicago, Houston, and Louisville. Northampton was completed May, 1930. Speed at trials, 33.10 knots; standard displacement, 9050 tons; complement 611. Dimensions — Length 600 feet, beam 66 feet; maximum draft 17% feet. Machinery—Parsons geared tur- bines, shaft horsepower 107,000; speed 32.7 knots per hour. Eight White-Forster boilers; four screws; Radius of action 13,000 miles at 15 knots an hour. Guns—Nine 8-inch, 55 caliber; four 5-inch anti aircraft; two 3- pounders; eight machine guns; six 21-inch (tripled) torpedo tubes; two catapults, and carries four alrcraft. The U.S.S. Salt Lake City in Auk Bay, sister ship to the Pensa- cola and is the first of the treaty cruisers to be launched. She was completed December 11, 1929. Speed at trials, 32.78 knots per hour. Length 585% . feet, beam 65% feet, mean draft 17 feet 5 inches. Machinery, speed and radius of action same as the Augusta Class ships. Guns—Ten 8-ineh, 55 caliber; four 5-inch anti aircraft; two 3- pounders; six 21-inch (tripled) tor- pedo tubes; 2 catapults and carries four aircraft. Displacement, 9,100 tons. Com- plement 612. - ——— 4 | sTock QUOTATIONS_L .’NEW YORK, July 12. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12, American Can 102, American Light and Power 10, Ana- conda 56%, Bethlehem Steel 92%, Calumet 147%, Commonwealth and Southern 2%, Hecla 18%, Interna- tional Harvester 113%, - Kennecott 60%, New York Central 41%, South- ern Pacific 48%, United States Steel 112%, Cities Service 3%, Pound $4.96 13/16, Republic Steel 40%, Pure Oil 21%, Holly Sugari32%, United States Treasury bonds 2%s 98.2, At- chison General 4s 110%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 178.70, rails 54.67, utilities 28.21, The | CONSIDERING ~ SWIMMING POOL Bradford Post Will Take Matter Up Tonight—Elks on Wednesday Evening | Two more organizations are to | take up the question of support of la swimming pool in Juneau thi§ | week, it was revealed today. The | Chamber of Commerce has launched the movement and the Firemen &al- |ready have declared themselves for it. | At its regular meeting tonight, iAlrord John Bradford Post, Ameri- can Legion, will have the matter jup for discussion and probable ac- | tion, according to Commander Wil- |liam O. Johnson, and Wednesday |night the Juneau Elks expect to | have the matter presented on their | floar. According to reports other or- |ganizations in the city are consid- |ering the movement and thus far all sentiment expressed has been favorable. “The whole community, every in- dividual, every organization, must get back of this program if it is |to succeed,” said the Rev. O. L. |Kendall, Chairman of the Cham- i ber swimming pool committee, who |now has his committee at work figuring out suggested ways and means. “If we have united commun- ity effort, ‘we cannot fail, anfl’ we owe it to the children of this com- fmunity not to fail.” 355 ARE DEAD FROM HEAT N WIDE SECTION Thunder Showers Give Some Relief — Creeks Swollen, People Flee | [ | 1 1 | (By Associated Press) The heat wave, extending to the western plains from the Atlantic seaboard, has left 3556 dead, up to early this morning. The Weather Bureau predicts a climb back to the high nineties af- |ter thunder showers in many sec- |tions late Sunday. Between 300 and 350 families in six West Virginia communities have | been driven from their homes when two creeks overflowed. Ten Lake Michigan bathers were badly burned in Chicago Sunday when shocked by lightning which struck a tree under which they had sought shelter from heavy rain. —— Prisoner Hangs Selt,_Bad Sheet PHILADELPHIA, July 12, — The body of Gabriel Rinaldo was found hanging from a noose made from a bed sheet in the Eastern Peniten- tiary. He was serving five to ten years for beating a man and steal- ing a watch. —— | | { LEGION, ELKS [EARHART PLANE SEARCH AWAITS ' MORE AIRCRAFT 'Hunt Called OFf Until Lex- * ington and Owen Ar- rives in South Sea HONOLULU, H. I, July 12—Thg | vast Naval hunt for Amelia Ear- hart and her co-pilot, Fred Noon- | an, missing for the past ten dnysi in the South Pacific, has been call- ed off in the isolated Phoenix Islands sector #nd the searchers are awaiting the arrival of the| aircraft carriers Lexington and | Owen as a last resort in efforts| expected in that area., The craft are expected to reach the vicinity to be searched Tues- day morning and at least 63 planes | will be launched in a final search |for the missing fliers on their at- | tempted world flight. et e L Los Angeles County Now | Faces Crisis Relief Seri:; Problem as| Well as Menace to Possible Epidemics LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 12— The authorities of this “Promise Land,” to tens of thousands of the Midwest indigents, are making moves to prevent a serious relief crisis as well as a menace to pos- sible epidemics. Los Angeles County Supervisor Gordon McDonough said he esti-| mates that 19 1/3 per cent of this county’s pepulation of 2,366,000 is on relief and that the county is dangerously overburdened; that at least 70,000, mostly families from the southwest, are in desperate straits. He said that in San Joa- quin Valley many are actually starving and dying from disease. PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 12. — One man was shot down and a po- liceman was wounded in a gun bat- tle early this morning. The gun battle started when two patrolmen confronted two men they said they had watched in robbing a service station. He has called a conference for the week of June 19 with Gov. Frank F. Merriam. .- During the Russian revolution more than 1,080,000,000 acres of land belonging to landowners were ac- quired by the peasantry. | The first semi-annual Salmon Derby will be held down the chan- Inel on next Sunday, according to |announcement made today, The |last Salmon Derby of the season will be in August. The Salmon Derbies are the big | yearly features of the Juneau Sports |Pishing Club of which Dr. W. W. ’Oouncll is President. \First Semi-Annual Salmon Derby Set for Next Sunday date set is Sunday, July 18 and the The announcement of the Derby 1101' next Sunday is for the purpose of the fishing enthusiasts, both men and woimen, to get their fishing BATTLESHIP ABROAD. This is the United States bl“lelhl& the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, during its visit to the German co! the Wyoming and the New York, were all on European trips and touched port at Kiel t. Day of Mate's Funeral, Claim Damage Suit_af $30,000 for Death, Takes on Queer Angle BELLINGHAM, Wash,, July 12.— Because Mrs. Lena Moore, widow of John Moore, who lost his life aboard the PAF freighter Mary D in a storm last April, assertedly remarried the day of his funeral, the company asks that her $30,000 damage suit filed in the Superior Court, he dismissed. ‘The company charges that last April 20, Mrs. Moore obtained a marriage license in Snohomish County and married Frank Mouml in Everett, the ceremony being performed by a Justice of the| DEATH CLOSES CAREER, NOTED SONG WRITER Tin Pin Alley Plugger Rises to Great Heights in Film Musicales HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 12.— The remarkable career of George Gershwin, who rose from New York Tin Pan Alley to a place of respec- tability in jazz musicdied yes- terday of a brain tumor, Gershwin came up from a $15 a week song plugger to compose scores of film musicales at a reput- ed $250,000 a year. He was a Pul- itzer prize winner. His best known| work was “Rhapsody in Blue.” BRIDGES TO FORCE RYAN 70 JOIN CIO Either Give Up AFL or Losel West Coast Longshore- men Is Threat NEW YORK, July 12. — Harry Bridges, West Coast longshore lead- er, said today he will submit an ultimatum to Joseph Ryan, Presi- i Arkansas shown passing throu, ‘the two powers are at the breaking h The Arkansas, accompanied gy June. CHINA, JAPAN NOW NEARING OPEN WARFARE Both 'Nations Are Moving Forces Into Trouble Zone Near Peiping BULLETIN—Peiping, July 12. ~The rattle of machine guns are heard late this afternoon and told the people of this city . that the five-day battle between the Chinese and Japanese has been resumed. The new out- burst has caused consternation here, (By Associated Press) In spite of reports of a new ar-| mistice in the five day conflict west of Peiping, both Japan and! China moved fresh soldiers toward the North China trouble zone. Officials said relations between point. Japanese reinforcements, declared | by Premier Konoye, in Tokyo, as; “adequate armed forces,” moved to- ward China from Japan proper, also| Korea and Manchuria, Japanese headquarters asseft that, the vanguard of the Chinese army,| approximately 50,000 soldiers, hnve“ reached the battle .area west of| Pieping, along the Tungting River.| - e - - SEX SLAYER DIES, CHAIR Young Man Electrocuted— Makes No Confes- sion of Crime | GHT, OVER POLE STARTED d Auk Bay SOVIET FLIERS ' LEAVE RUSSIA, ~ BOUNDTOU.S, iAir Ace Gromoff, Two Com- | panions Take Off from Moscow This Morning | |WEATHER CONDITIONS | SAID TO BE PERFECT Hope to LaEl San Fran- | cisco or Some Other Pacific Coast Port BULLETIN—Seattle, July 12. —The Alaska Communications System has received a message from the Soviet fliers, relayed via Moscow, saying: “Ten-thirty a.m. PST, latitude 81 degrees 30 minutes, longitude 58 degrees, about 500 miles other side of North Pole. Speed 105 miles an hour, encountering heavy fog.” MOSCOW, July 12—Soviet Air ace Mikhail Gromoff hopped off at 3:10 o'clock this morning, Mos- cow time, ‘for the United States, flying via the North Pole to Sam Francisco. 5 Excellént weather conditions are reported all along the route to be |flown. « ; R Gromoff is accompanied by Co- {pllot - Andrei -Yumoshelf and ‘Navi- gator Sergel Danilin. It was first reported that Grom- joff's destination was Chicago and later it was reported he might land at any Pacific Coast port, Two Purpose Flight The {flight, according to the an- nounced program, Is expected to be one in an attempt to set a combined distance and speed record. The plane is single-motored of the ANT-25 type, identical to the one used in the preceeding trans- Polar flight. The identification marks are URSS-025-1. The plane is equipped with a short wave radio and the call let- ters are RETET. o To Communicate The ayiators will maintain fre- quent communication with the United States Signal Corps stations at Anchorage and Seattle. The plane is carrying seven and one-half tons of gasoline, greater than the amount carried by Cheka- loff. Rain delayed Gromoff's takeoff during the previous three days. Gromoff now claims the world distance record, closed circuit flying, established in 1935. He was Chief . Pilot ‘of the big plane Maxim Gor- ky who was kept at home by illness on the day in crashed in May, 1935, killing 49 persons. Levanevisky O.K. Sigismund Levanevsky's re-ap- pearance, when it was announced that a second plane will also leave soon for the Moscow - California flight via the North Pole, set at rest rumors arising because of the absence at the reception to Dr. Otto BELLEFONTE, Pa., July lfl.-—AI-‘ exander Meyer, 20, sori of a well-| to-do retired coal operator, died in | the electric chair this morning in Rockview penitentiary for the sex | slaying of Helen Moyer, 16. | White-faced but outwardly calm,| Meyer was led to the chair e died in four minutes. He recited the Twenty Third Psalm. | Meyer never confessed t he! ran the girl down with his truck, attacked her and then tossed the body into a well and dynamited the well to hide the evidence, | e, — HAWKESWORTH BACK FROM TRIP SOUTH Charles W. Hawkesworth, Assist-| i i *he American Federation of Labor and join the CIO or have his or- ganization taken away . from him.' Bridges was recently appointed { CiO director of the West Coast. |He said a commitee of three, him- tackle in condition for the big day. Substantial and worthwhile priz-| es will be given. | The committee in charge of the' derby will meet’ tomorrow night,| probably in Dr. Council’s office to | make full arrangements, self, Joseph Curran, head of the National Maritime Union, and Mar- | win Rathbone, President of the Ra- dio Telegraphers' Union, repre- senting the CIO, have made an ap- pointment to meet Ryan at an un- |nounced destination. to Juneau on the Mount McKin-| ley after attending the anlc! convention in Tacoma and visiting| in Seattle. He was gone about a| month, going as far as Puget Sound with Director Willard Beaty of the Bureau’s education department in Washington. | | D Scientists at Columbia University in New York have grown a Turk- ish tobacco stalk 6 feet tall in| chemical nutrients. ) Schmidt and other members of the North Pole Scientific party. It was denied that he has been arrested or has been under investigation. CANADA MAPS AR SERVICE OVER PACIFIC Survey Flights to Be Made Across Dominion in England’s ‘Life Lines’ dent of the International Long- ant Director of Education for nw‘ OTTAWA, July 12.—As the Brit- shoremens’ Association, to abandon Bureau of Indian Affairs, returned ish flying boat Caledonia, harbin- ger of Transatlantic passenger ser- vice, is being groomed for a return flight across the Atlantic, Canada is prepading to forge another link in England’s “life lines.” Late this month, survey flights will start for a trans-continental air line between Halifax and Van- couver, B. C, and when that is completed, a projected line between | Vancouver, New Zealand and Aus- tralia, across the Pacific will be lexplored.