The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 13, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TU Y, JULY 13, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. L., NO. 7534, SOVIET FLIERS REPO DANCE TONIGHT T0 CLOSE STAY, NORTHAMPTON 11-Piece Band Off Cruiser to Furnish Music—Ves- sel Leaves Wednesday A festive night at the Southeast Alaska Fair Building, in the nature of a dance given by the 11-piece band off the U. S. 8. Northampton, ' | will draw down the curtain on the current visit of Uncle Sam's trim cruiser. Early Wednesday morning the 10,000-ton vessel will steam away for Yakutat Bay, for several days of maneuvers prior to returning south to Portland, Ore, The band, heralded as one of the finest on any U. 8, cruiser, will play at a dance to which the public is welcome. The dance will start at 9:30 p. m. Climaxing a visit here since late Saturday night, the affair is expect- ed to attract virtually all the sail- ors, marines and officers of the Northampton, as well as many Ju- neauites. There was a possibility, too, that some members of the U., S. S. Salt Lake City,,a sister ship' Northampton, which is an-| bt g | foot trestle across the highway at Maybeury, W. Va., 20 miles from locomotive exploded after hitting the ground. Eighteen freight cars were destroyed. Firemen are shown fighting chored in Auk Bay, will also at- tend. Meanwhile, the Northampton was | the center .of vast local interest during the visiting hours from 1 to 4 p. m. Hundreds of local persons have inspected the cruiser during its stay in port. Auk Bay Throngs ToDecks, U:S. S. Salt L_alw City Residents on Juneau Out- skirts Enjoy Their Own 10,000-ton Cruiser While Juneau pays tribute to the U. S. S. Northampton, anchored in Gastineau Channel, residents at serene Auk Bay have enjoyed their own visiting cruiser—the U. S. S. Salt Lake City—which has been an- chored since early Sunday morning. A sister-ship of the Northampton, the Salt Lake City 1s virtually iden- tical to the 10,000-ton cruiser tiat now rests in the front door water- way of Juneau. have gone aboard the Salt Lake City during the visiting hours from 1 to 4 p m Officers of the Salt Lake City are: Capt. R. B. Coffman, Commander G. A. Rood, Lieut. Comdr, Henry Hartley, Lieut.“Comdr, T. B. Fitz- patrick. Lieuts. H. W. Eaton, M, C. Thomp- son, H. E. Eccles, J. Shoemoker, F. R. Jones, T. A. Smith, M. F. D. Flaherty. Lieuts. (jg§) W. 8. Butts, V. D. Innis, O. K. Duncan, R. A. Keating, Ensigns C. B. Paine, N. G. Ward, W. R. Wallis, A, F. Fleming, A. K. Tyree, J. 8. Gray, W. L. Brantley, L. A. Lajannie, C, W. Murphy. Aviation Cadets H. M. Avery, J. T. Bollinger, R. G. Fussell. Lieut. A, P. Morton, (MC), Lieut. A. Dinsmore, (DC), Lieut, Comdr. J. E. Brennan (8C), Lieut. (jg.) F. J. McManus, Chief Boat- Brown, Chief Eléctrician D. H. Love, Radio Electrician M. I. Lapp, Chief Machinists J. A, Sanders, V. H. Starkweather, Carpenter K. B. Diefenbach, Chief Pay Clerk J. Peak, Pay Clerk W. O. Chapman, Second Lieut, P. J. Fontana. DENNY SHUTE IS DEFEATE WALTON HEATH, England, July Scores of persons’ > . d Two trainmen were killed and a fire when a Norfolk and Western Bluefield. The the blaze. 10-room house was destroyed by freight train plunged from a 180- AIR PROBLEMS | OF NORTHLAND ' ARE PRESENTE Delegate Dimond Presents | Aids to Flying in Al: l aska at Council | b ! By J. J. ECKLES ‘ Secretary to Delegate Dimond | WASHINGTON, June 26.—Spec- ial Correspondence) Included among the 19 resolutions endorsed by the Northwest Aviation Plan- ning Council at the conference at Boise, Idaho, concluded on June 19, were three with the particular purpose of relieving the problems retarding aviation in Alaska and otherwise helping flying in the Ter- | ritory to progress. Delegate Dimond returned to { Washington by air on June 21 from ithe conference, where he was in jcharge of the Alaska part of the ! program and supported the request for. additional flying facilities in \the Territory. In line with resolu- tions endorsed the Northwest Avia- 'tion Planning Council will work for the establishment of air-mail service between Alaska and some suitable terminal within the North- west. The Council is also pledged to work through Congress for im- mediate action on the part of the Feedral Government in the devel- opment and early completion of adequate airports and air naviga- tion facilities in Alaska. Establishment of the Territorial Planning Board was given special recognition by the Cuncil, and ac- cording to the Delegate it appéars likely that the support of the Council will prove valuable to the Planning Board in securing the execution of its plans and recom- mendations relating to aviation. ENTRY AIRPORTS In a Treasury Department order approved June 17, the Juneau Air- port and the Ketchikan Airport were designated as airports of en- try for the landing of aircraft from foreign countries. It is be- lieved that this designation for Customs use will simplify the rout- ing of shipments by air from Can- ada in this area. OYSTER CULTURE BILL ‘The bill introduced by Delegate 13.—Henry Cotton, British Open|Dimond for the protection of oyster Golf champion, today defeated culture in Alaska for commercial Denny Shute, United States PGA purposes passed the House on June titleholder, 6 and 5 in a 72-hole 21. Favorable department reports match for a purse of $2,500 andlon a companion bill introduced in “unofficial world championship.” [the Senate by Senator Schwellen- bach of Washington, have been made, so when the Senate bill is Fort Worth _um . |considered by the committee . the ChlllcllllAglMDeugm expects to ask for the e substitution of the bill that has FORT WORTH, Tex., July 13. —| pasced the House and thus speed Tramps and hoboes are giving this|the enactment of the measure. C‘z";r‘"‘u h"‘;’;“ i REINDEER MEASURE poven , police & The bill introduced Delegate the chain gang system for making L - vagrants work. (Continued on Page Three) 1gAssm:iated Press | | History to Be ! Made Into Movie HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 13. — | A film depicting the history of the | Associnted Press, ‘thie greatest news gathering organization in the world, and the part it has played in the! development of a free American press, will go into production imme- diately, Davis O. Selznick said m-‘ day. The picture will be named “Free- | dom of the Press.” | FATHER TRIES TOKILL YOUTH, | ASSAULT CASE Nine-Year-Old Girl Stabbed | 17 Times, Beaten and Raped —n CHICAGO, il July 13. — Harry | Hundreiser, 27, walked calmly into| the Summerdale police station and fired four shots in the direction of John Ardelean, ‘17, held on charges | of beating, raping and stabbing ms; daughter, aged 9 years. | The shots missed, although fired at a distance of only three feet. Hundresier was disarmed. The girl is recovering from 33 wounds. She was stabbed 17 times: by an ice pick and has seven head cuts. ' The father went to the jail and sald he was carrying food for Ar- delean and suddenly pulled a pistol from his pocket and began firing. MORE SOVIETS ' SENTENGEDTO DIE, TREASON MOSCOW, July 13—A. B. Mdi- vani, former Soviet commercial at- tache in Paris, and seven other persons, have been sentenced to death for treason, terrorism and conspiracy, according to the Geor- gia, Tiflis, a newspaper which has arrived here. The article in-+the newspaper claims all pleaded guflty to treason as expressed through espionage, in behalf of Fasclst eircles. Pickpockets Take Man’s Life Savings YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 13— John Dugan, seventy, of Toronto, Ont., had hoped to spend the last years of his life in his native Ire- land. That hope has faded, because, Dugan told police, pickpockets took his life savings, $326, at a circus SWIMMING POOL * New Danger Spot of the § PROGRAM HERE| Pioneers Auxiliary Is Firstf Woman's Organization to Endorse Project Joining the ranks of organizations in the city who are backing the swimming pool project, Alford John Bradford Post, American Legion, last night approved the mdem- ing without a dissenting vote and delegated Post Commander Willlam 0. Johnson to represent the Po7a all matters coming up in connection with -getting the public enterprise started. The Legionnaires expressed them- selves as whole-heartedly back of the swimming pool and recreation. center idea and Commander Johns son was instructed to cooperate with the Chamber of Commerce committee, headed by the Rev. O, L. Kendall, in every way possible that an early start might be made. ‘Women Back Plan First women’s organization to back the drive for a community swimming pool, the Pioneers Auxili- ary, headed by Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne, went on record at this month’s meeting to promote the move. Various other businesss matters, were discussed at the meeting and -iplans were outlined for a picnic to be held on Priday, August 13, at the Jenne cabin at Lena Beach. Mem- bership drive activities are being continued through the summer. HELEN WILLS MooDY 1S To SEEK DIVORCE Anyway She Has Establish: ed Her Residence at Nevada Resort RENO, Nevada, July 13. — Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, former tennis queen, has established her residence at a Nevada resort near here but is noncommunicable about reports she is planning a divorce from San Francisco. The former tennis star’s attorney said she “may later seek a divorce.” Mr. Moody’s sister said a divorce is certain but gave no reason. —————— Public Utility Districts Here . A_re_Pmposed. Dimond Offers Plan in Con- gress with Aim of Aid- ing Seldovia Region WASHINGTON, July 13.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked Congress to authorize public utility districts in Alaska and in- cur bonded indebtedness but that it be limited to 10 percent of the aggregate value of real and person- al property within the district. The public utility would be subject to taxation, under his proposal, and a 65 percent favorable vote would be required to authorize a bond issue. The legislation primarily is de- signed to aid the Seldovia district. In many instances, Dimond said, utility developments are hampered by the prohibition against banding. Finds Juries Are Hard On Sli;rifl'l Friends OMAHA, Neb., July 13.—Law en- forcement officers who testify in criminal cases should never wear Jjewelry or lodge emblems, says Hen- ry Beal,, for 16 years Douglas Coun- ty, Nebraska, attorney. “We once lost a case here be- chiuse a policeman wore a twb-carat diamond ring,” says Beal. “The jurors didn't listen to his testimony. They were wondering where he got the ring.” One almost certain way to secure a conviction, Beal adds, “is to let a friend of the sheriff—then the here. Dugan had booked passage for Ireland. ‘]ury is certain to vote guilty.” wealthy Frederick 8. Moody, Jr., of | A view of the Soviet city of Khabarovsk, river separates Soviet Russia from Manchukuo, the Japanese army reported that its artillery had third to flee. Japan has since demanded that Russia withdraw her claimed by Manchukuo, Bandits Set Buzldlng Afire In One Part of Town, Then and has become one of Zminded." power to “wreck every ves- tige of human liberty.” The speech by Senator O'Ma- |honey opened the second week of !the debate over the proposal to eouRT MEASURE JOHN DAY, Oregon, July 13.—A | | Most of the townspeople were! out fighting the flames or watch- WASHINGTON, July 13.—Senator enter a rear door and open the itold the Senate yesterday after- vault. R o | Supreme Court. coNGRESSMEN At the outset of his speech, Sena-| gang of armed men robbed the | Grant County Bank of an un- determined amount last night. They | slugged the assistant mhwr.[ SEN. O'MAHONEY 1] | e ing a burning building in another 1 i & 'part of the community. The fire Gives President Power to is believed to have been set by the Wreck Every Vestlge robbers to distract attention. of Human Liberty 'noon that the Administration’s’ Hoverson was found lying on the Joseph C. O'Mahoney, of Wyoming, sidewalk in front of the bank, bad- court bill will give “a President, so ly beaten about the head, and un- tor O'Mahoney attacked the anti-| filibustering rule invoked by Sena-. tor Robinson to force eventual vote' on the measure and which resulted in angry arguments. ] Small Fry Protest at Not Being Able to See wounded. . anathey, .man : And -then ‘wrecked their automoblle in mak- An unconfirmed report is that] Ithe robber gang forced Oscar Hov- conscious. He is in a serious con- "dition in a hospital and unable to | Senator O'Mahoney attacked the compromise bill advanced as a sub- i President Often | | \both he said, were designed to give; {the Administration control of de- cisions of the court. STATEH0OD FOR HAWAIAN ISLES 1S NOW SOUGHT Delegate Wants 25 Con- gressional Members to Visit Theer in Fall WASHINGTON, July 13,—M1-ID°UBLE TROUBLE dents of the Hawailan Islands want pyery Executive has the problem. 25 Congressional members to Visit youngish Robert M. Hutchins solved their Territory in the coming fall ;e phage of it quickly after he took to determine its fitness for state- over the Presidency of the Univer- hood. 'sity of Chicago. He let it be known Delegate Samuel King asked the ¢h.¢ an immediate conference and House yesterday to authorize an ¢o, with gl members of the faculty inspection trip and expressed the y.q ohyiously a vast waste of time, jcertainty that it would be approved. g, ne cancelled this old custom. “We are better prepared for state-| rom Girdler, chairman of the . . Rob Bank in Another Section ing their escape. § | erson to go with them to the bank, give a clear version of the holdup. change the judicial set-up of the stitute by Senator Bailey and de- By PRESTON GROVER !clared that the substitute did not |vary effectively from the original, WASHINGTON, July 13.—One of the sources of disaffection between 'Congress and the White House was not solved at the Jefferson Island | conference and, in fact, gives no immediate prospect of solution. t is the difficulty members of Congress — more particularly the| small fry—have in getting an occas~ ional conference with the President. The President is a busy man. He said recently in a press conference that his work often lasted from be- ilore breakfast until well after mid- night. So he cannot grant every | request to see him, with the Amur River in the background, is shown above. The sunk one Russian warship, disabled another, and forced a Far East the danger spots of the world since armed forces (rom‘t’ha j@l:rl_h;x_’lp_l FORMER JUDGE, FIRST DIVISION, DIES IN SOUTH Robert.W. Jennings, Schol-; ar, Wellloved Alas- "“kan, Passes Away - Robert W. Jennings, for 25 years | one of Alaska’s most distinguished | and well-loved residents, and for| eight years judge of the District Court of the First Division, died at| his home in San Francisco yester- day morning. | Word of his death was received | in Juneau by Mrs. T, M. Reed in a telegram from her niece, Miss Corl | | delia Jennings, and also by Associ-|, ated Press dispatch to The Empire. Death of the former Alaska Judge followed that of his wife by only| six months, Both had many friends | in Juneau and throughout the Ter-| ritory who regret their passing. Born in N.Y. Judge Jennings was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1864. His family lived in Nashville, Tennessee, and it was to Nashville, they re- turned to live and there that young Robert Jennings grew up. He went| through the schools of Nashville| and attended Vanderbilt Univer- sity. For his law course he attended Harvard, Not long after he finished Har- vard he went to Port Townsend,| Washington, where he began the( practice of law. He immediately be-/ came active in Democratic polities of his county and state and was elected prosecuting attorney of Jef- | ferson County. ‘The prominent young. attorney who had already distinguished him- self as a speaker for his party in the political campaigns of the day, was married in 1897 to Miss Ada Pugh. Come to Alaska In 1898 the young couple came. to Alaska and first made their home| in Skagway. After practicing law in Skagway for several years, Judge! Jennings, Mrs. Jennings and their daughter, Cordelia, moved to Ju-| neau. Judge’ Jennings was a candidate for Delegate-to-Congress in 1012, | but was defeated for election by Judge James Wickersham. Appointed to Judgeship i In 1913 he was appointed District | Judge for the Pirst Alaska Division | by President Wilson and reappoint- | ed in 1917, After serving two terms as Dis- trict Judge, he moved to San Fran- cisco to make his home. With head- quarters in San Prancisco, he rep- resented a well-known California law firm, with offices in Sacramen- to and San Francisco and had / {mthew it get around that.the defendant is| hood than many of the states when they gained the distinction,” said Delegate King. “We want state- hood for the most progressive com- munities on the globe. Our four 'hundred thousand population 1is greater . than Vermont, Wyoming, Delaware and Nevada. We pay more to support the Federal Government ithan any one of seventeen states. The.” people have been intensely ;loyal'clnce we voluntarily annexed (to the United States in 1898." adding a 48th star unless on the North American mainland . i I a 0 Some legislators are opposed 0 congressmen presume to have a|Solist were blind at the marriage| board of Republic Steel Corporation, solved it another way. He told a Senate committee that he was will- ing to see any of his men any time about their troubles. Since he has only about 50,000 employees, that situation presented such a funny as- pect that even somewhat bored Sen-| ators laughed. The employes Oh'i viously mever presume to have a richt to see him. Cangressional trouble seems to be| combination of the two. The (Continued on Page Three) . charge of the firm's Sacramento practice. “He was an able lawyer, a pro- 1!ound scholar, a wonderful gentle- man and probably my oldest and best of friends,” said Gov. John W. Troy when told of his death. “Like all who have known him, I shall ,miss him greatly.” Funeral services will be held to- morrow in San Francisco. e Bride, bridegroom, organist and | of Thomas I. Tighe and Mrs. Jessie 'SIGHTED EAST OF THIS AFTERNOON Expected to Reach Califor- nia Destination by Midnight Tonight CROSS POLAR REGION WITHOUT MISHAP Russian Bird_men Making Fast Time in Second Epic Flight Over North Pole The three Soviet fliers from Mos- Pole, are reported at 1 o'clock this afternoory by Canadian National telegraph operators at Usk, 100 miles east of Prince Rupert, as having been seen in the air flying south. Early this morning a message from the fliers indicated they were 1,000 miles on the south side of the North Pole. At 8:35 o'clock this morning, the Seattle station of the Signal Corps, United States Army, received a di- rect message from the fliers re- porting the plane then in latitude 58 degrees and 30 minutes and longi- tude 120, indicating the plane had reached Northern British Columbia between Fort Nelson and Hudson's Post, At the rate the plane was flying it should arrive over the Puget Sound district about - 3:30 o'clock on to San Francisco, should . reach there by midnight tonight.. . Skies were dy . and lower coast 4 jarea, it is xepor &vlfttk ace {ptlot and his companions are co« pilot Andrei Yumosheff and. Navi- gator Sergei Danilyn. e e PEIPING IS ATTACKED BY JAPAN FORCE {Ancient Walled Chinese City Besieged by In- vading Troops TIENTSIN, Chinla, July 13.—Thir- teen hundred Japanese soldiers from the East Hopei-Fengtai Railway Junction. garrisons are making a drive on the ancient walled Chinese city of Peiping without waiting for the arrival of Manchoukuoan rein- forcements, The Japanese directed the attack against the city from the east and south. The Japanese drove into the very shadow of the walls, in motor trucks, under protection of armored cars, ‘The Japanese infantrymen are supported by light field pleces. The Chinese soldiers ‘have sue- ceeded in removing sections of the rallway skirting the southern and eastern walls of Peiping to prevent the approach of Japanese armored trains. el . 60 NAVY PLANES INVAST SEARCH EARHART PLANE Covering Area of 36,000 Square Miles with How- land Island as Center ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER LEXINGTON, July 13. — Sixty planes roared from the deck of the Lexington early today in a last mighty effort to locate the missing Earhart plane. It is the greatest air search in ‘the history of the United States Navy. The fliers aboard the 60 planes were ordered to scan an area of 336,000 square miles of the South Pacific, centering at Howland Is- land. - — Mrs. Barbara Phillips of Wil- laimsport, Pa., has a 30-year-old turtle dove which plays with a tiny doll. At night the dove sleeps on a |Putnam Bryant in Glendale, Cal. small white pillow and is covered by. a small sheet. cow, who have flown over the North _ PRINCE RUPERT this .afternoon, and if it continued . D TED NEARING GOAL o, . i SN Mihail Gromoff is |