The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS 4LL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, AY, JULY 22, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. L, NO. 7542. FAIRBANKS REPORTED SHAKEN, QUAKE New Crisis Develops in Nor ONE DIVISION CHINESE ARMY, WANTS BATTLE Refuses to Move from Zone Supposed to Be Evac- uated Today AGREEMENT REPORTED MADE BY TWO NATIONS Attempted Assassination Is Reported from Pieping —Police Alert BULLETIN — TIENTSIN, July 22.—The soldiers of the Thirty-Sev- enth Chinese Army Division are! | reported to have precipitated a new crisis by a determined refusal tol evacuate positions west of Pieping. ASSASSINATION FOILED SHANGHAI, China, July 22. — It is reported here from Tientsin that a “bold attempt” made to as- sassinate Japanpse = Ambassador Shibaru Kwagoe failed by the alert- ness of the police. The plot was discovered and foiled. The plot was| headed by Thai Shu-Tang, former high staff officer of Marshal Feng Yu-Chiang, once a Chinese War Commissioner. SUSPENSION OF WAR MATERIAL DELIVERY REPORTED ORDERED TOKYO, July 22—The Japanese ‘War Office is reported to have or- dered an indefinite suspension of the delivery of war materials and equipment to North China. The meaning is not clear. but to some it indicated peace may be near. Army officers at home have been warned they must deal directly with the Nanking government to settle disputes and must also convince the Nanking government that they will use force. It is said here China is preparing for war on a large scale. Japanese dispatches from Teiping said the Central Chinese govern- ment has agreed to recognize a set- tlement of the present crisis and this has eased the tension. ‘ The agreement provides that both sides withdraw troops from the area west of Peiping where the fighting broke out on July 7. - e DA, OPENS WAR ON MINORS IN LIQUOR PLACES Holzheimer Declares Dis- pensaries Permitting Chil- dren Be Prosecuted Prosecution to the full extent of | the law awaits those who violate| the new Territorial liquor law by In Jersey Race | | E E After a series of conferences with 1 Democratic county leaders at At- | jantic City, N. J., Representative | Elmer H. Wene (above), of Vine- land, N. J., announced his candi- dacy for nomination to the Gover- norship on a New Deal-Labor plat- | form. He will oppose United States Senator A. Harry Moore in the primaries. SECRET ROUND WORLD FLIGHT INDICATED NOW Supplies Are Received at Edmonton Airport—May Start from Germany | { 1 | | EDMONTON, July 22—Plans for| a secret round the world flight, with | a possible starting in Germany and refueling over Edmonton, were made known on the arrival of gas and oil | at the Municipal airport. Officials admitted the consign- ment of more than 600 gallons of CHAMBERAGREES T0 TAKE LEAD ON SWIMMING POOL Will Contact Organizations with View of Forming Permanent Group The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce will sponsor the swimming pool movement in Juneau and at its luncheon today voted to comply with the request of the Swimming Pool Investigating committee that it contact various organizations in the city and ask them to name one member to a Permanent Swimming Pool committee, or Association, which would have complete charge of the undertaking. The Chamber took favorable ac- tion without a dissenting vote after !the Rev. O. L. Kendall, chairman |of the previously appointed swim- ming pool committee, reported the action of the investigating group at its session Wednesday night in the City Hall. The latter asked Chamber sponsorship and se- lection of a permanent committee from the various organizations in the city. The Secretary was in- structed to contact the respective organizations and request them to name a representative to the per- manent committee with full author- ity to act. This Permanent..Swimming Pool committee will have r to se- lect the site, decide on the kind of building, arrange financing and see the project through to its comple- tion. Report of the legislative commit- tee that the bill now before Con- gress proposing that a section in every other township in the Terri- tory be set aside for the University of Alaska be opposed was accepted {by the Chamber and report on the |bill to extend the services of the Signal Corps by charging for gov- ernment messages was re-referred to the committee for purpose of amendment. R. E. Robertson reported that the Nakat Packing Corporation had ex- pressed a willingness to contribute not over $100 toward another experi- ment in blueberry canning and. this matter was turned over to the local gathering | high test gas and 45 gallons of spec- ial oil, have been received from Ger- many. industries committee to handle. A similar experiment was made last season and was productive of fav~ | | school teacher at Saugus, Mass,, to a hospital to recover. Miss she had entertained member st Tcgchér in trm’.l;a‘lkén Iil, Isabelle Hallen and father Collapsing from the strain caused hy her fight to keep her job as pretty Isabelle Hallen was ordered len; shown above with her father, was “invited” to resign by the school board following charges that udents at a cocktail party. She .denied the charge and retained an attorney to defend her case. 1 DEAD OF FLU, HOOPER BAY, AS SIEGE SPREADS Doctor Corthell Asks Planes to Send Supplies—Radios Treatment to Points BETHEL, Alaska, July 22. One person is dead today of influ-| enza in the Hooper Bay area, as a wave of bronchitis, pneumonia and influenza sweeps the region. Many | tion of salmon fishing in the Brls-‘ OFFICIALS T0 LEAVE BRISTOL BAY FRIDAY 'Four Federal Representa- tives Complete Investiga- tion Japanese ‘Invasion’ WARREN, Alaska, July 22.—After a prolonged Government investiga- tol Bay area, an official party ol; The airport officials also stated that San Prancisco may also be used during the flight as a base but nothing is definite. The officials declined to reveal the identity of the fliers, plane or| point of departure. | It is rumored here that the take- | off is planned for possibly next" week. | It' is also reported that there is| orable reports. K. B. Stevens, District Engineer for the Union Oil Company, was a guest of the Chamber and Assis- tant Regional Forester Wellman Folbrook told of his recent trip to the Kenai Peninsula, Report of the ' Executive Board revealed that John W. Jones had been appointed to that body to fill the vacancy cai by the resigna- are ill. Doctor M. E. Corthell has|four men are scheduled to leave COURT PROGRAM BILL KILLED BY| SENATE ACTION Committee for Re- drafting at Once BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, July 22.—The Senate virtually killed President Roosevelt's court enlargement proposal at, the present session of Congress when it voted late this after- noon, 70 to 20, to send the bill back to the Senate Judiciary | Committee which was instruct- ed (o prepare a new measure affecting only the lower courts and to report it out within ten days. Senator M. M. Logan, of Ken- tucky, made the motion. ACTION BY COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, July 22—Early today the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee voted to ask the Senate to send the Roosevelt court bill back | to it with instructions to draft a | substitute dealing only with lower | courts and to do so within ten | days. This oceurred in an hour and | one-half executive session attended |by Vice-President Garner. | The committee also suggested that Senator Logan of Kentucky make the motion today in the Sen- ate to recommit the bill. “The action marked a virtual abandonment of a compromise on | the court bill now pending in the| | Senate and was generally consid-| \vred as a complete victory by the :court bill foes. | Lower Court Proposals Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, |of Wyoming, leading opponent of the court bill, later announced that{ the committee and the Adminis-| tration chieftains, including Vice- President Garner, agreed to an| eight-point program for “judicial reforms” which include no change in the Supreme Court. | ————————— 'Escaped Convict Is Captured ; Not One gnt Fired requested that medical supplies be| here tomorrow. sent there by a plane. The official party consists ot; Dr. Corthell is broadcasting Charles E. Jackson, Deputy Com-/ nightly by amateur radio to his Missioner of Fisheries; Ward T.| wife the treatment of patients in Bower, Chief of the Alaska Divi-| the hospital at Mountain Village. sion of the Bureau of Fisheries; | His son is sick. Doctor Corthell|John McFall, House representative is treating by radio and is also Of the Appropriations Committee; keeping in touch with Bethel py|and R. Kilbourne Castell, of the Fisheries Départment. a possibility of Jimmy Mattern us-|tion of Ray Stevens, who becomes ing the airport here if he is denied | gecretary-Treasurer, Mr. Stevens permission from the United States|has gone south for a yaestion and to make the California, over t.hei(;m.m1 Shattuck, Secretary of the North pole flight to Moscow. Territorial Chamber, is filling the position during his absence. FOR'S VETO, MATTERN GETTING READY LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 22. — {A twin motored plane that Jimmy Mattern plans to use for refueling over Pairbanks, Alaska, on his pro- permitting boys and girls under 21|Posed flight from San Diego to Mos-| into liquor dispensaries, District Attorney Willlam A. Holzheimer | declared today in a warning that he is not going to countenance any violation of the law. “It has come to my attention,” the District Attorney declared, “that there are complaints of ‘minors fre- quenting these places. I do not know whether these complaints are true! or not, but I do‘know that we are not going to permit it. I have called |ialize. FARM BILL 1S {cow, is being fitted here with a 900! gallon gas tank which will carry the| gas for the refueling. | quR.nlnnEN Reg Robbins and Nick Grenner| will be the fliers. The plane was| brought here from Kansas City and | will take off to Fairbanks if the| WASHINGTON, July 22. — The plans for the Mattern flight mawr-;sanuw today enacted. over the Roos- |evelt veto a measure to extend | “emergency” interest rates on farm loans. The vote, 71 to 19, was more than the two-thirds majority needed. ., Hired Assassins in enforcement officers and asked them to see to it that violators are taken in. “This is the final notice. This business of letting boys and girls Are Beilg Hunted Bto: these Plaoy A gIv10 o~ 'Boooll(;:aker ggcl Night Club| H I rator Shot in Back | ome Inietey 44 —Believed Dying ‘ Urged by Filipinos; MANILA, P. IL— Assemblyman' REDONDO, Cal., July 22. — Two Felipe Buencamino wants the men whom the police said are paid where smoking fis permitted. A assassins from Reno, are hunted for home industry like that he has the wounding of Les Bruneman, just studied in Japan. Govern- bookmaker and night club operator. | ment encouragement in keeping The police said the two men were | farmers occupled In dull seasons Nired to get Bruneman who was shot is urged to help solve the agrarian IR the back. Bruneman’s condition is critical: The House previously had over- ridden, by a vote of 260 to 98, the President’s veto. Senator Barkley in his first major speech as majority leader, urged Senators unsuccessfully that the ve- to be sustained. He said the bill would impose a $40,000,000 burden annually on the Treasury. ’Recom;nends Rivers For Reappointment WASHINGTON, July 22—Presi- dent Roosevelt has recommended tc the Senate the tment of Ralph J. Rivers as United States Attorney for the Fourth Division, Alaska. radio with the governmaant nurse in regard to the meningitis cases at Kuskokwim. e POSTAL AGENT IS INSPECTING ALASKA SITES C. T. Holden Investigating Anchorage for $625,000 Federal Building WASHINGTON, July 22. — The Post Office Department today said they had a man in Alaska inspect- ing sites for all proposed Federal buildings when gsked t6 comment on the presence of C. T. Holden at Anchorage. They said they were unable to! say what the prospects were for| the $625,000 Anchorage building be- cause so far no funds have been made available. They said they are | not authorizing funds for enlarge- ment purposes because they desire to get new buildings. R i CORDOVA FISH CONTRACT The Cordova Air Service has re- ceievd word that awarded the Bureau of Fisheries patrol contract for another year, the period to July 1, 1938." They will leave via the Iliamna | Trail for Cook Inlet; thence to Anchorage, from which point they will return to Washington, D. C. The Federal officials were rush- ed to the Bristol Bay fishing re- gion upon reports from Alx.sknn’ fishermen that Japanese vessels, | “invading” the bay, were flshlnglw for salmon. They left Seattle July 1 on Lhei Brant, flagship of the Bureau of Fisheries. At the time they were| scheduled to remain in the region for six weeks. The officials will make regular inspection ' reports upon their re-| turn to thé National Capital. During their Bristol ‘Bay stay, airplanes,| flying low over Japanese vessels,| reported definite evidence that the Japanese were engaged in fishing for salmon. | PENSIONPLAN sTILL PusHED;Boardx jurisdiction in the Guild| CHICAGO, TIIl, July 22. — Dr. his movement was “far from dead,” as he disclosed that impending leg-| islative campaign in all States will| be started by petitioning Governors and Legislators to urge pension en- actment. He 'will pass up Congress and concentrate on 36 States to press his demand for a Constitutional Last of Trio Breaking from | Texas Prison Farm, Now Accounted for MONTECELLO, Arkansas, July 22.—Harry Roberts, last of three Texas convicts who escaped from a prison farm and who sought refuge in the southeast Arkansas woods, is i jail, captured without a single shot being fired. Roberts eluded a posse for 24! hours. | The wife of the night marshal | here became suspicious when he or- dered food and she turned him down. She gave the alarm and he was soon captured. One of the other escapees was Measure to Be Reported to| § CAPONE TO WIN EARLY RELEASE MUCH DAMAGE REPORTED DONE INTERIOR AREA Windows Broken, Merchan- dise Shaken from Shelves Early This Morning |HOT SPRINGS, TANANA ALSO FEEL MOVEMENT Associated Press Dispatch from Victoria Indicate Shakes Continue A severe earthquake is report- ed by the Weather Bureau to have occurred at Fairbanks and other interior points this morn- ing. According to advices received by The Empire from Victoria, the shocks were continuing, with intensity, at the noon hour to- day, ri The Weather Bureau received, - advices that the disturbance was between 7 and 8 o'clock this forencon and was of pros nounced severity. Great damage was reported done to windows and merchan- dise, indicating that the shocks | \ | 3 1 “Scarface” Al Capone, ex-Chi- cago bootleg baron, who will be released from Alcatraz prison next summer after serving two- thirds of a ten year term for income tax violations. Wash- ington, D. C, 'sdvices -reported Capone had’ won the sentehce reduction for good behavior. Once freed from Alcatraz, how- ever, Capone must serve a one- year term in Chicago for con- tempt of court. Hot Springs also reported a severe earthquake, Tanana also reported that se- vere quakes were being felt. ANOTHER REPORT MADE VICTORIA, B, C. July 22.—The Gonzales seismological station re- ports a severe earthquake beginning at 9:14 o'clock this forenoon and at noon the instrument was still recording the movements. The dis- tance is estimated at 1460 miles somewhere in Alaska, BIG CLEANUP IS REPORTED FROM GOODNEWS BAY $24,500 in Platinum Tak-| en Qut in 18 Days— Stampede South Excellent cleanup of platinum | in the Goodnews Bay region and report of a mild stampede in to the area south of Chagvan Bay where coarse beach gold has been'| found is reported in a letter to thie Territorial Department of | Mines from J. C. Roehm, Associate | Mining Engineer for the depart-| ment, who recently went into the| district. Writing from Platinum, Alaska, | QUAKE IS SEVERE DENVER, Col,, July 22—The Rev. A. W. Forestall, of Regis College, sald “the quake in Alaska was se- vere enough to knock the writing pens right off my machines.” ——————— LARGE DREDGE BE SHIPPED TO GOODNEWS BAY center of the Olson Brothers op-| erations on July 13, Roehm said ! that an 18-day cleanup by Olsons brought about 500 ounces of plat- inum which now has a market value of $49 per ounce, or $24,500 in 18 days. There are about 200 people in the town with two or three more coming in daily, he Equipment Is to Comprise Full Cargo for A. S. Co. Freighter Latouche SEATTLE, July 22. — Freighter LaTouche, of the Alaska Steamship |Company, is sailing tonight in bal- last for San PFrancisco where there will be loaded a 3,600 ton dredge for | said, about half{ of them pros-| the Goodnews Bay Dredging Com- ‘\pecms, Two trading posts are op- killed and the other was captured on erating and a third under con- Tuesday. pany. Newspaper Deries Unfair_l_’ractices Seattle Star Refutes Charges Preferred by Nation- al Labor Board SEATTLE, July 22. — The Slar’s management denies the Labor strike and denies the newspaper in- timidated the workers and used un- fair practices. | Francis E. Townsend today declared| The Star is printing again after suspending for four days on ac- count of the strike which was called July 9. Several Guild members are work- ing, and others are still out. G 3.1 v Plant potatoes as soon as possibl! after they are out, Walter B. Balch, Kansas State horticulturist, advis- amendment for old age pensions. es. | struction. There is one large bunk‘lofl"‘ equipment will make a full ;house and the rest of the populace | house themstlves in tents and |cabins. Meals and beds are 50 |cents and supplies, he reported, |are only about 25 per cent higher than in Juneau. The engineer said he expected to head for the area south of Chagvan Bay,. between Cape Newenham and | Hagemeister Strait shortly where | ere is a report of finding a | | The LaTouche will take the cargo to Goodnews Bay direct then after discharging proceed to Kodiak Is- land, Prince Willlam Sound for fish products and ore. R PG —_— L STOCK QUOTATIONS | — + NEW YORK, July 22. — Closing coarse gold, appearing to be beach guotation of Alaska Juneau mine ]gold. Already the prospectors are | ggook today is 11%, American Can |streaming into that area, he re-|107% American Light and Power ported. |10%, Anaconda 58%, Béthlehem | Irving McK. Reed, also Associate gteel 92%, Calumet 14%, Common- Engineer for the department, re- wealth and Southern 2%, General ports from Fairbanks that he is|Motors 56%, International Harves- | heading into the Wild River coun- |ter 115, Kennecott 59%, New York ltry in the upper Koyukuk, west;Centrnl 42; Southern Pacific 49%, lof Wiseman and Celdfoot where United States Steel 117%, Cities prospects have been reported par- | Service 3%, Pound $4.98'i, Republic | ticularly bright this spring and Steel 39%, Pure Oil 21', Holly Su- wide interest is centering at this gar 31%, United States Treasury time. |Bonds 2'%s 98.17, Atchison General | > |48 111%. | Dr. Ludwig L. Kaftan, Los Angeles | T | physcian, and his wife, visited in DOW, JONES AVERAGES Juneau Wednesday. They are round| The following are today’s Dew, |trippers aboard the Prince Rob~ Jones averages: industrials 182.96, P, rajls 54.70, utilities 29.41.