The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7540. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIRE OPENED ON CHINESE BY JAPANESE HEAVY SALMON RUN STARTED, BRISTOL BAY If It Keeps U-p—Through To- day There Will Be No Need, Early Closing Alaska Agent L. G. Wingard announced at 3 o'clock this af- ternoon that new reports from Bristol Bay indicated that the heavy run was proving to be just a spurt and that it was gradu- ally diminishing. In view of this, he said he would renew his rec- ommendation for early closing, ‘which would wind up the fish- ing in that area on Thursday morning. After a week in which there were virtually no salmon caught in Bris- tol Bay causing officials to recom-. mend early closing, the run has started suddenly and if it maintains its present pace until tonight there will be no need for closing on Thursday morning as contemplated, | it was reported by Alaska Agent L. G. Wingard today. Advices from the Bureau of Fish- eries men in the district stated the| heavy run started in some places! last Saturday morning and in others Saturday afternoon and has been continuing since. “We are watching it closely,” Win- gard said, “and if it keeps up like this until tonight we will withdraw the recommendation that it be closed Thursday, letting the season run its normal course or through, next Sunday the regular closing time. “This is the latest in the history of Bristol Bay that a run of this magnitude bhas been encountered, indicating that the backward wea- ther conditions have no doubt in-| fluenced the fish run. “These reports now coming in| make it appear hopeful that fishing will improve at Chignik where it has been very poor but where we had one of the best escapements in 1932. We must also take into consid- | eration that the run at Carluk was extremely good early in the season.” Commissioner Frank T. Bell at Washington is in close touch with the situation, the Alaska Agent said, and in the event the present big run proves only another spurt of only a few days duration as has been the experience in Bristol Bay this season the necessity for closing early will still exist but should it continue through today the closing order will be withdrawn and the season permitted to run its normal course. The favorable Bristol Bay reports today indicated the pre-season fore- ! Famous Inventor Is Dead The above is one of the latest pictures of Guglielmo Marconi, taken with his wife, when they recently visited in Chicago. BATTLING FOR POSSESSION OF MADRID TODAY Two Forces, Estimated at 100,000 Each, Engag- ed in Terrific Fight MADRID, July 20.—The Loyal- ist and Insurgent armies, estimated at 100,000 men each, are pitted for the sixth day in the greatest en- counter of the Civil War. The battle is for possession of Madrid. The Insurgents have been re- inforced from the less active fronts and are fighting for possession of the Spanish capital after eight months of struggle. The Insurgents have coordinated infantry, artillery and airplanes, but victory is not yet in sight. The Loyalists are fighting a de- termined and systematic defense and in some sectors are driving the invaders back. BOMBARDMENT REPORTED LIGHTNING SETS FIRES IN FORESTS Scores of Blazes Fought in Washington and Oregon Past Four Days | SEATTLE, July 20. — Lightning 'cet.forest fires plagued -hundreds of ighters in Washington and Ore- |gon today. Last Saturday and Sunday, light- ning sprayed 15 fires in eastern Pierce and Lewis counties, and seven in the Snoqualmie National forest in Washington. More than 50 fires were started along the Columbia Highway and| over 100 in the Mount Hood Nation- al forest in Oregon. ( Most of the fires were controlled before they reached the green ! standing timber. ND 10 AFL A |keeping explorers at the ends of | PASSES AWAY, | HEART ATTACK ' Guglielmo Marconi Work- ing on Experiments Up to Time of Sudden Death ROME, Italy, July 20.—Guglielmo Marconi, wireless telegraph invent- or, died unexpectedly early this morning as the result of heart para- lysis at the age of 63. Up to yesterday he worked on experiments to adapt the miero- wave to long distance transmission and also on television. Marconi Company officials said the experiments have reached such| a stage that work can be continued on them. The widow was at the bedside, summoned from a seaside resort yesterday. The daughter, Elletra Elena, whose eighth birthday is to- day, remained at the resort. Premier Mussolini, when notified |of Marconi's death, went immed- iately to the Marconi home and paid respects. He approached the bed, which was lighted at the four cor- ners by tall candles, paused, bent and kissed the dead man's forehead. The body was taken later to the historic Farnesina Palace and will lie in state until the afternoon of the burial day. Burial will be at Bo- logna where the first experiments on wireless were made. “Telegraph Without Wires” The world shrugged a skeptical % ishoulder and smiled tolerantly in 11895 when Guglielmo Marconi an- nounced laconically: “I have discovered how to tele- graph without wires.” Yet within a decade ocean liners were keeping touch with each other and with shore by means of “Mars! conigrams” and hundreds of lives| had been saved by prompt response to the old distress signal of “PDQ.” | And just as the Bell telephone fol- lowed the Morse telegraph, so wire- less transmission of the human| voice within a few years became a reality. As an aid to navigation of both the sea and air, as a method of | { | breakfast. lSoviet VPlanewF o | . the earth in touch with civilization | and as a way of transmitting ap-! peals for aid when angry elements have wiped out material methods | of communication with strickeni! communities, the Marconi invention | has become one of the great boons, of civilization, | Even Before Marconi | Marconi, like Morse with the elec-| Was unable to land at San Diego, Establishing a new world’s record for non-ston distance fl forced down in San Jacinto, Cal, with a leaking gas tank, after traveling 6700 miles in less than 62 hours, The trio took off from Moscow at 4:22 pm. (P.S8.T.) July 11 and landed in southern California $:30 a.m., Jyly 14. The fliers were taken to U. S. Army quarters at March Field, where they bathed and were given Photo shows Pilot Mikhail M. Gromoff, Co-pilot Andrei Yumachev and Navigator C. A, Dani- lin after they had cleaned up after the R A[]m qumi Russian Fliers Break R;’;'or(ls:, 6;70()-M ile Ho p long flight. rced to Land, Pasture, California Down for the first time in 62 hours, the Soviet trans-polar plane is pictured as it rested in a pasture near San Jacinto, Cal, where the daring Russian fliers were forced to land with a leaking gas tank. The trio their cbjective, because of fog. light, three Py 3 Soviet aviators were recently tric telegraph, turned laboratory| — discoveries of secluded scientists in- SHELLS BURST OPEN WARFARE, NEAR PEIPING Arsenal and Barracks in One Surburb Reported 1 to Be in Flames {ONE DIVISION ALSO UNDER ATTACK TODAY Cabinet Meets in Tokyo— Drastic Action Is ;‘ Being Planned SHANGHAI, July 20.—The Chin- |ese arsenal and barracks at Wan- pinhsien burst into flames early to- day under punitive Japanese artil- lery shelling, according to official |advices from Domei. It is also said fighting broke out |in positions west of Peiping at 2:30 io'cluck this morning two and one=- {half hours after the ultimatum |demanding Chinese evacuation .of |the area had expired. Firing is still going on at noon |today. The Japanese troops are retaliat- ing to the “unprovoked intermittent Chinese firing against the Japan- ese line,” the officlal statement says. The. Chinese field gun fire met the Japanese advance and the Jap- anese returned the fire, silencing the Chinese, it is further said. BOMBARDMENT CONFIRMED . bombardment is reported to have wrecked ‘the towers of the walled City of Washington, western su- Ty demanding evacuation of the Twen~ ty-Ninth Chinese Army had expired. It is reported that familfes ot Japanese diplomats, accredited to the Central Chinese Government at Nanking planned to leave there for Shanghai by Friday as a general at- tack on the entire territory in indi- cated. Four ranking members of the Jap- anese Cabinet, in session kere to-~ day, are considering drastic action against the Chinese to force a set- tlement of land jurisdiction. The crisis is increasing in inten~ sity. A dispatch this afternoon from Fengtai, Japanese Fieid headquar- ters in North China, said shells have started bursting in the heart of the positions held by the Thir- ty-Seventh Chinese Division. TOKYO, July 20—The Japanese cast of about a million and a quar- HENDAYE, France, July 20— ADHERENTS |N ter cases might be reached which Twenty were killed and 100 injured was particularly encouraging after in an Insurgent bombardment of | the poor returns of last week which Tarragona, according to dispatches to practical use. The actual dis- covery of radio, from a purely scien- AMERICANS INSULTED BY JAPAN SOLDIERS CORRESPONDENT Fugitive Makes |JUNEAU SCOUTS pointed to a small pack of some- from Barcelona. thing over 600,000 cases. | — e . | I Japanesein S.E. | ARE LYNGHED H J— Alaska P[edlctad TALLAHASSEE, Florida, July 20. —Assistant Chief of Police W. L. Pratt, said two young negroes, Returning south following inspec- charged with stabbing a Tallahas- tion of the New England Fish Com- See policeman, were lynched early pany canneries of which he is gen- this morning by an unidentified eral superintendent, Oscar Bergseth mob. this morning voiced the opinion ! that if Japanese encroachment of ard Hawkins and Ernest Ponder, Alaskan salmon fishing is allowed each about 18 years of age. They to continue out to the Westward, Were accused of stabbing V. F. Kelly there is little hope that the fleets:When he attempted to question will not soon commence activities them about breaking into a restau- off the southeast Alaskan shores. rant. Mr. Bergseth returned here on the The negro boys are listed as Rlch-‘ Yukon after investigation of com- | pany canneries to the westward.| Although none of the New England | canneries are located in the Bristol Bay region where the encroach- ments are occurring, he believes it | will not be long before the Japanese | continue their activities down the| coast line, thereby interfering with the NEF. cannery of Cordova. While in Cordova, Mr. Bergseth met Dr. Paul W. Beard of Stanford| University who has been sent to the Territory to study causes of, spoilage in the salmon canning in- dustry. Voicing approval of Dr. Beard's experiments, Mr. Bergseth stated that a great need exists for prevention of spoilage in the in- dustry, and that the research is of major importance to cannery out- put. The cannery superintendent re- ported favorably on operations of the plants to the westward, and states that a good season is indi- cated. While in Juneau, Mr. Bergseth has been stopping at the Gastineau Hotel. FREE-FOR-ALL SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 20.— |Four men were hospitalized after a free-for-all between CIO and AFL |started when five carloads of AFLs |were halted in their attempt to go to work this morning in the Tea Garden Products ‘Company. The |CIO is attempting to force the AFL |employees to join their ranks. | Police were called and broke up Ithe riot. 24 More Soviet Spies Shot Down MOSCOW, July 20.—The, execu- tion of 24 more alleged “Trotskysts, Japanese terrorists, spies and rail- road workers,” is reported from the Soviet Far East today. They died before firing squads. | tific standpoint, goes back half a century befofe Marconi. “Hertzian waves” were the im- mediate forerunners of the wireless transmission of code signals. They were named for Heinrich R. Hertz, a German physcist who, by exper- iments between 1885 and 1889 was the first to prove that electrical waves would radiate from any sys- tem from which electrical oscil- lation was produced. Hertz thus gave life to a theory advanced by James C. Maxwell (1831-1879), a famous British phys- icist, who developed to a remarkable degree ideas evolved by Lord Kel- vin. The latter, in 1853, had proved Princeton University. Kicked on Music If the father of Marconi had had that discharge from a condenser is| oscillatory, a theory evolved in 1842 out the entire world in the past 12 footed for them. They disappeared by Joseph Henry, a professor of years finally brought him to Alus—il-n a cloud of dust. his way, the problem of applying‘ 'FOR COLLIER’S HERETO WRITE |W. B. Courtney in Juneau Preparing Material for Air, Fisheries Articles i | The “seven league boots” that have carried W. B. Courtney, fea- tured correspondent and associate |editor of Collier’s Weekly, through- ka. Mr. Courtney, who arrived in Ju- neau today on the steamship Al- aska, will scrutinize his “last fron- these laboratory cogitations and! discoveries to commercial purposes write articles on Alaska’s airways| would have been left to some oneland fishing industries—and possibly else, and in Marconi the world on Matanuska and other subjects.’ would have had instead a probably|His stay in the Capital Oity is in- mediocre and unsung musician. !definite. While here, he is a guest tier” for a month or six weeks and: ~ Bold Movement \ B4 'Roy Traxler Goes to Home Town, Early Morn, Gets Wife, and Escapes VERDEN, Okla., July 20.—While |G-Men. state and county officers (hunted him, Roy Trazler, fugitive from a Texas Prison Farm, drove boldly into Verden early this morn- ing, picked up his wife and ‘heavy _luggnge, and fled in her car while officers and acquaintances flat- ———————— ‘Ford Riot Case Going to Trial DETROIT, Mich., July 20—Com- lts here on a vacation. Printers Favor CIO But Stick with AFL PORTLAND, Oregon, July 20. — While the International Typograph- jcal Union is favorable to the CIO, the organization will not break from ! the AFL. This is according to Charles P. Howard, President, who Another Disease Must Be Fought by Clinics DENVER, Col., July 20. — Dr. Ma_n M‘m' Thomas Parran, of the United, WIIO . ed Slab'.es Public Health Service, saidlg Women Given public clinics must liberalize in the| = . requirements in cases of spyhilitics. | 9 Years n Pmon The Rocky Mountain Medical | Conference has gone on record| WINNIPEG, July 20. — George backing Dr. Parran by a resolution | Roediger, who married nine women stating it would like to see syphilis|in ten years has been sentenced added to the list of communicables|t0 serve nine years: in the Pro- and subject to compulsory treat- | vincial Penitentiary in Stony Moun- ment. tain. x | Of Roediger's nine wives, one is Imissing and three died mysterious- ly, but there is no evidence to lllnk him with the deaths, or with | the fact of one having disappeared. | Roediger had, for quite an extend- ed time, evaded establishment of being so many times guilty of bigamy. ——————— The precursor of the cigar was a roll of tobacco leaves smoked by primitive South American Indians. The father insisted that his son study music. Apparatus in the home attic which the youth had designed and made himself aroused the par- ental ire and he frequently threat- especially when the son proved anything but a success as a music student. Mother Helps But like many another budding genius, young Marconi had a source of inspiration and practical help in his mother. of an Irish family, she had gone to Italy against the wishes of her par- ents to marry Guiseppe Marconi, a banker. She granted her son’s wish to study physics and enrolled him with Prof. Vincenzo Rosa. She also helped him set up a workroom at the family villa in Pontecchio. ened to pitch it all out the window, | Born Annie Jameson, | of the Gastineau Hotel. mon Pleas Judge Ralph Liddy has The Collier'’s correspondent, who' ordered eight individuals, also the said he had nothing to do with the Ford Motor Company, as a cor- formulation of editorial policies— poration, to be held for trial in the Spain as soon as he has completed assault warrants based on the riots \dipping into Alaska. {at the Ford plant gates on May 26 Nothing New when union organizers were beaten Ice and snow are nothing new to up by Ford employees. him, for he has spent many momhsl Mo e c e (S e o in Arctic regions and in Norway. SIGNAL cnRPs |“As a matter of fact,” he declared, “there are now-peaked mountains in Ethiopia and in South America —just a few miles off the equator.”| WASHINGTON, July 20.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill appropriating $194,536,063 for flood control and other military activities “Alaska is the only spot in the; els,” he said. “Searching for stories for the War Department, which ihas brought me all over the world.” His views on Spain, where he has spent weeks visiting both the Rebel and, the Loyalist Army, favor the (Continued on Page Th!”eefi world that I have missed in my trav- includes the Signal Corps. " ]éonunued on Page Six) “thank goodness,” will head for Wayne County Circult Court on/ RETURN TODAY FROM JAMBOREE Hallie Rice, Bob Scott, Lee | Lucas Report Fine Trip to Capital The White House was “OK.", President Roosevelt looked like a “good guy,” and the entire trip was the “best ever,” according to Hallie Rice, Bob Scott and Lee Lucas, Ju- neau Boy Scouts, who returned aboard the Alaska this morning fol- lowing attendance at the Boy Scout Jamboree this month in Washing- ton, D. C. l Leaving no important spot unseen | from here to New York, the three Scouts traveled East with the Se-| attle Area Council of Scouts, leaving Seattle on June 18 and arriving in| ‘Washington, D. C., on June 29. New York Some Burg “New York City was the place of all” the three Scouts| agreed, citing the Empire State| Bililding as one of the most im- pressive sights, They also enjoyed | visiting the foreign delegation in ‘Washington, D. C., and the naval munitions factory in Indian Head, Maryland. Later they visited the United States Naval Academy at| Annapolis, and saw, too, Mount Ver- non, the Arlington Cemetery, the monument to the Unknown Soldier, and the Lincoln Memorial. Camp in Rain | Accompanied by 30 other Scouts |the Juneau boys commenced the trip from Seattle, traveling East by way of Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ofttawa, |Montreal and then New York City. |They visited with friends in New | York befors traveling to Philadel- best | | PEIPING, July 20.—Mrs. Helen Jones, of Detroit, and Miss Carol Lathrop, of Washington, D. C., pro- tested to the United States Em- bassy that they had been kicked and shoved around by Japanese sentries on guard before the Jap- anese Embassy. Depositions were taken at the Embassy and the officials said they would call attention to the attack to the Japanese officials. Mrs. Jones said: “Five sentries kicked me in the side, then an- other held me tight with a bayonet. They finally let us go, shoving us roughly and giving me a forceful kick from behind.” BRITISH ACT QUICKLY ON REPORTED ATTACK PEIPING, July 20.—Unlimbering of machine guns in front of the Japanese Embassy this afternoon and with British marines drawn up in front, guns loaded and bay- onets fixed, brought an immediate apology from officials of the Jap- anese Embassy regarding slurring of two Britishers who were walking on the opposite side of the street from the Embassy. The Britishers said they were minding their own business and walking along the street, when two Japanese sentries ran across and accosted them in terms of derision. One Japanese was felled by a well directed blow to the jaw and the other came running up when several British soldiers appeared. The Japanese sentries scrambled back to their side of the street but the British Embassy made an im- mediate demand for an apology and got it. ., — ELECTRIC OFFICIAL HERE J. H. Graff, owner of the electric light company at Seward, and Mrs. Graff, passed throught Juneau as phia, then proceeded to Washing- (Continued on Page Three) passengers on the steamship Alaska bound for their home town.