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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7544. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937. SSOLINI SOUNDS “W STILL FELT AT SALCHA BLUFF InteriorQuaEaid toHave Been Centered About 40 Miles from Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, July 24. — Tremors from the earthquake continued here yesterday with more than 90 dis- tinct shocks and “rumblings and boomings were still heard at Salcha | Bluff,” according to word received here. Dr. Ervin Bramhall of the Uni- versity of Alaska said that the quake apparently centered near Salcha, 40 miles southeast of here, and said he believed it was caused by the possible rapid shift in the subter- ranean earth which, he continued, caused the Salcha rumblings. Dr. Bramhall said the severity of the shocks was of such magnitude that it was impossible to get accu- rate seismograph interpretations here. MAY BE ABLE TO CLEAR HIGHWAY IN 3 DAYS A message from Superintendent Frank Nash of the Alaska Road| Commission to Chief Engineer Ike! P. Taylor today said that he hadk flown over the Richardson High-| way to Big Delta yesterday and| found the route all right south of Mile 34 and believed that the slides| in the area hetween Mile 33 and! Mile 34 could be removed in about| three days so the highway would| again be open. - i WARTENSION, NORTH CHINA, IS LESSENING Liable to Flare Up at Slightest Friction, ] Is Concensus | TIENTSIN, July 24—The war| tension in North China apparently eased today, although Japanese war | materials of all kinds continued to be sent to various sectors. | It is said that the slightest fric-, tion, however, might serve to re- new the warlike disputes in some places in China. { ENOUGH IS ENOUGH SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 24. Major General Ving Wen of the| Chinese Army raid here that his' nation would fight if it were made the target for any more anacks‘ from the Japanese. The Chinese military officer is in San Francisco enroute to the Orient. He declared: “My people have given enough ground. We must fight if we are! further pressed.” WM. BARLOW PASSES AWAY Here is the new assistant secretary of war, Louis Arthur Johnson of Clarksburg, Legion, as he assumed his duties W. Va., former national commander of the American as chief aide to Secretary Harry Wondring. =K Friele Believes Japanese Fishermen, Raiding Bristol Bay Section, Are Recalled| SEATTLE, July 24.—H. B. Friele, Chairman of the board of the As- sociation of Pacific Fisheries, on arriving here from Bristol Bay via Juneau, said he believed the Jap: weeks ago, acted without consent of | their Government. | Priele based his opinion on the fact the fishermen left before the run was over. This leads him to - |think they might have been recalied | |anese fishermen allegedly raiding by Tokyo when the latter learned <‘thc salmon run off Bristol Bay two |of their acts. MEMBERSHIP BIG INCREASE Large Gain Is Made Since August of Last Year, Says Official Report nounced today that the membership | here, strikebound since May 1, may teamsters | SAN FRANGISCO INAFL SHOWS HOTEL STRIKE - MAY BE ENDED ‘Prospects Bright for Term- | 1ation of Walkout | Since May 1| | WASHINGTON, July 24. — The| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 24— c] | American Federation of Labor an- | Prospects are that the largest hotels| CLOSED; RESULT OF BIG STRIKE 700 Employees Idlé as Walkout Reported Spreading TACOMA, Wash., July 24.—Pick- ets patrolled this city's largest de- partment st s today after the es- tablishments had been closed due to a clerks' strike which spread rapidly with one store failing to open Friday morning. Seven hun- dred employees are reported idle. Rumors were prevalent today that groceries and other establish- ments would follow the department stores in closing if the strike spread further. Cause of the present trou- ble was not announced but the working agreements expired in June. M. J. Muckey, Director of the Ta- coma Industrial Conference, hinted that merchants expected a tieup of several weeks. R SR OVERTURNED IN _ STRIKE MIXUP Buffalo Food Handlers Tie Up Food for Millions as CIO, AFL Pool Efforts | BUFFALO, N. Y, July 24 - meat the" {handlers’ strike. Gasoline spilled and was ignited in a blaze that was extinguished be- fore serious damage had been done. /Two thousand wholesale grocery |truck drivers and meat packers are istriking, menacing the basic food supply of millions of persous. The AFL and CIO have pooled ft.hgir efforts in the tieup of lwhnlesale butter and egg markets. {Four meat packing plants have been losed. ‘The CIO’s picketed where the AFL are striking. Truckers in that organization, taking in alljopen within a week. The prospects were ordered-not to deliver at pack- member unions, is 3,106439, as of |are bright for such action as the jng plants where the CIO is asking !date July 20 which is a gain of |result of union negotiators recom- recognition. The ILA clamped down 1660,000 since August last year. The listed membership does not |include the suspended Unions which taffllinwd with the CIO, the state- ment says. Platinum, Gold Flowing Early From _A_nchurage $100,000 Deposited in _Banks in Week—Miners Arrive Air, Rail, Auto mending that the 3,000 strikers ac- cept an agreement of the operators which is termed satisfactory. IAIR FULL OF CHARTERS FOR ial Trip to Coast Points —Mine Flight Sunday Three charter flights have kept Marine Airways Pilot Alex Holden MARINE PILOT Pilot Holden on Two Spec-| the meat embargo. L i B COPPER RIVER ONLY GAIN IN - SIW.FISH AREA Other Districts Falling Be- | | hind, Weekly Report to Bureau Reveals With the exception of Copper River district which showed a final 42| pack figure in excess of last sea-| busy yesterday and today. Yester-|SOD, the salmon pack in the South- ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 24.— SAN PEDRO, Cal,, July 24—Wil- liam Barlow, 85, the last of the fa- mous brothers of ‘minstrel shows, which ‘appeared in most of the civ- ilized countries of the world in the late nineties, is dead here. Three Picket Men Are Shot AKRON, Ohio, July 24. — Three men on the picket line of striking truck drivers were mysteriously wounded by gunshot from a passing automobile early this morning. The upion then withdrew their pickets and agreed to attend a meet- ing wifh the operators. First Guilty Plea In Scottshoro Case DECATUR, Alabama, July 24— The first Scottsboro case guilty plea was made today by Orlo Powell, one of nine negroes accused of rap- ing two white girls. He pleaded guilty with assault and intent to commit murder. One other was convicted and sentenced to die and another has been sentenced to 99 years in prison, ‘The annual flow of gold from An- |chorage to the U. S. mint is under- iway here early. Local bankers said more than $100,000 in gold and platinum was deposited here last week. They ex- .{pect deposits to continue until fall, increasing with the season. ‘The gold comes from Wasilla and Willow, and around the Kuskokwim country, while the platinum comes from Goodnews Bay. | Miners are arriving by automo- ile, train and airplane. It is a com- mon sight to see a man walking on the street with a heavy poke hang- ing in his hand. PROMINENT EUGENE FAMILIES ARRIVE ON FISHING TRIP Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Sether, accom- panied by their daughter, Miss Eli- zabeth Sether, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardy arrived in Juneau today aboard the Mount McKinley. Coming here from Eugene, Ore- {gon, the Sethers and Hardys plan a week’s fishing excursion before |returning south. Mr. Sether is a {leading physician of Eugene, and {Mr. Hardy, a leading attorney. e Jay Walker, 45, was fined for a day forenoon, from 11 o'clock till| noon, Pilot Holden, accompanied by flight mechanic Lloyd Jarman, flew the Fairchild to Hawk Inlet with cne passenger outbound. This morning at 8:30 o'clock Pi- lot Holden took off in the Fair- child 71 seaplane, with Chandler Hicks as mechanic, for Excursion Inlet, from where he returned at 10 Campbell. Leaving again at noon today in the Fairchild, Pilot Hol- den flew on a charter flight to Sit- ka, from where he was tp return late this afternoon. Lloyd Jarman was flight mechanic on the after- noon hep today. Tomorrow, the Marine Airways pilot is to make a charter leap to the PolarisTaku mine, with D. C. Sharpstone and party. Operates Trading Lot KIRBYVILLE, Tex.—"“A Tolerable Square Deal” is the slogan of T. G. (Thorny) Hicks who operates a trading lot here where stockmen, farmers, small boys and profession- als meet to bargain and swap ev- erything from horses to marbles. - The Bureau of Agricultural Eco- nomies at Washington employs 300 persons daily to gather, the prices of o'clock with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel | west area through last Saturday is |considerable below last year, ac- |cording to pack reports compiled by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. With figures from the north side of the Alaska Peninsula not yet Southwest districts with compara- |tive totals for last season at the |same time, follows: Alaska Peninsula (south side)— Reds, 72,559; kings, 2,116; pinks, 123,216; chums, 59401; cohos, 1,- 606; total, 258,898; last season, 494- 061. Bristol Bay—Reds, 958,681; kings, 6,48; chums, 21,317; cohos 1; total, 986,453; last season, 1,114,807. Chignik—Reds, 27,393; kings, 109; pinks, 4517; chums, 3,179; cohos, 142; total, 35300; last season, 91,- 033. Kodiak—Reds, 64,528; kings, 286; pinks, 145784; chums, 7.492; cohos, 596; total, 218,686; last season, 241,148, Cook Inlet—Reds, 15933; kings, 20,319; pinks, 4,164; chums, 7,714; cohos, 3,835; total, 51,965; last sea- son 136,318. Prince William Sound, including Resurrection Bay Reds, 5,145; kings, 150; pinks, 50,265; chums, 7,832; cohos, 2,827; total, 66219; last season, 96,202, Copper River (final pack)—Reds, 77,459; kings, 3,846; pinks, 17; to- traffic charge in South Bend, Ind.'farm products throughout the U. S.|tal, 81,322; last season, 76,731, available, the pack in the various | | ) Fighting Railreads joined the war on billions of grasshoppers swarming over eastern Colorado, sending flame throwers to destroy the insect horde. MEAT TRUCK IS |- Marriage Is Loveless One; Divorce Granted [0S ANGELES, Cal, July 24.— Ruth Marion Kammerdine who married her foster father, James Kammerdiner, 64, Christmas Eve, 1935, secured a divorce today claim- ing a loveless union. She received a $36,000 trust fund. ARE MADE IN DOUBLE CRIME Doctor Kills Son in Mercy Execution, then Takes His Own Life SEATTLE, July 24.—While plans for a joint burial of Dr. Guy Shear- man Peterkin and his 19-year-old son Sherman he killed in a mercy |execution are being made, investi- gators traced what they said was a carefully laid plan preceding the | tragedy. Coroner Mittelstadt said Dr. Pet- |erkin did not reach his office until ten minutes before the double shoot- ing, indicating he wrote the sui- cide notes hours before the shoot- ing. Dr. Peterkin shot and killed his son, a freshman at the University of Washington, because of an in- curable disease. STOCKS TAKE ADVANCE AT BRIEF MEET NEW YORK, July 24. With Chrysler gaining three points and utilities generally turning over in sizeable advances, stocks finished the brief session today with a ral- lying note. Steels tilted lower for a time but came back for modest gains. Transfers at today’s short session were 400,000 shares. VOTE DUMPED SAN FRANCISCO, Cay., July 24. —Attempts to stampede the Pacific Coast six thousand marine firemen into the Committee for Industrial Organization by alleged illegal bal- loting were rebuked and the entire vote has been “dumped.” — - Urges Secret Tests To Be Made, Disease CHICAGO, July 24:—The city has asked 3,500,000 residents to submit to free and voluntary secret blood tests for syphilis, The Government has supplied 2,000,000 franked en- velopes to be used in sending out the requests crawl and hop onto the right of way. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS R” WARNING Grassho ppers With Flame One is shown in_ action, cremating the hungry invaders as they Dropped to | Death in 0dd Accident | SEATTLE, July 24 |tackle, out of control, on the |freighter Border King, snatched |Carl Carlson, 26, seaman, and his| lehair in which he was sitting 256 feet above the deck, and dropped him to death in the hold. Carlson was sitting or a chair |when the machinery went wrong. | it ATTA GIRLS! - JUST FIGHT FOR RICHTS Seventy-five Thousand Stamp Their Little NEUTRALITY PACTFAILS ~ OVER SPAIN Great Britain Admits At- | tempts to Get Com- promise Is Futile BULLETIN—London, July 24, —Secretary of Foreign Affairs Eden announced this afternoon that he has asked ropean pewers to put it down in black and white their stand on the ritish plan to keep foreign | arms and foreign fighters from | the Spanish War. | | — A boom | LONDON, July 24.—Great Britain/ admiiting failure in her attempts to find a compromise for the inter- national neutrality deadlock, moved to throw full responsibility upon | Feet and Wow It Germany and Italy for the pl;m:e" 0 collapse. A technical sub-committee, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 24.| of the International Non-Interven-|geventy-five thousand top ranking| tion group that incjudes twenty-|working girls, members of the Na-| seven neutral nations sworn to aitjonal Federation of Business and hands-off Spain policy, met at the|professional Women’s Clubs, have Foreign Office for three hours in'pleqged to fight for equality under another futile attempt to bridge|the jaw. the enmity between Europe's Pemsq This big aggregation resolved to and Fascist powers. The sub-com- | zecept no favors from the men- mittee was Britain’s last chence| controlled government and will de- proposal to salvage the non-inter- manq a constitutional amendment vention project by substituting o prohibit legislatures of states and Spanish port control for the col-|cjties governing bodies to pass laws, lapsed scheme of naval patrol and applicable, solely to women. granting belligerent rights to the % Insurgents and Loyalists dependent | - - upon withdrawal of all foreign vol-;WEATHER UNLY unteers from Spain, | refused to! cuss the withdrawal of Nazl-Fas- | BAR TU ISLAND cist volunteers from Spain until y Italy and Germany belligerent rights are accorded to| General Franco's Nationalists | France and Russia, allies of the| Spanish Loyalists, refused to con- sider the belligerency status until! the volunteers question was settled é When the meeting broke up at| Regular Game Set for Nine six o'clock last night, it was an-| ]nnings Tomorrow Eve- nounced that Great Britain has . ~ » abandoned for the time being her| ning at Firemen's Park efforts to wind a solution to thej deadlock. Britain, it was indi-| -If it does not rain. Or, rather, if crated, is prepared to ask Germany the rain ceases—Douglas and the and Italy to propose a solution ac- Elks will play a,nine-inning G ceptable to the other twenty-five tineau Channel League baseball non-intervention powers, lgame at Firemen's Park tomorrow If Premier Mussolini and Fueh-|evening, at 5:30 o’clock. Right now, er Adalph Hitler fail to offer some it looks as though diving suits will acceptable compromise, Britain and be in order. undoubtedly France. would formally; The Elks have had no success! admit the collapse of the entirelagainst anyone during the second structure of Spanish non-interven- half, and there is no real reason tion. (for expecting that they can upset |the Islanders tomorrow, but they {claim they will be in there fighting, SLIDEV TAKES OUT probmbly with Bud Foster, their top SIDEWALK ALONG pitcher, on the hill GASTINEAU AVENUE‘ The Islanders also will be out to win, as they must win to hold their Juneau's receni neavy rains here front-place spot in the league stand- resulted in a small slide, which car- jngs alongside of the Moose. ried away about thirty feet of the - hanging, wood sidewalk on the up-| PIONEER SOUGHT hill side of Gastineau Avenue, be- tween lots 125 and 135. About a dozen cubic yards of earth and rock slid out across a fifteen foot front onto the street, taking with it almost double the width of sidewalk. The city has a crew of men at work, clearing away the de- bris and restoring the trestle and walk > James Colin Cameron, who went to the Klondike in the gold rush days and was last heard from at Chicken, Alaska, is being sought by Mrs. Frank Stone of 31 East 32nd Street Terrace, Kansas City, Mo, according to a letter to the Gover- nor'’s office. Cameron is about 75 jyears old, Mrs, Stone writes, PREMIER OF ITALY GIVES OUT THREAT Editorial infl;_0wn News- paper Takes on Pecul- iar Veiled Note WAR DEBTS OWING TO U. S. DISCUSSED Declares “Reality” Will Soon Crumple Present Day Card Castles MILAN, July 24—I1 Popolo D'- Ttalia, Premier Benito Mussolini'a mouthpiece, declared that “reality” will some day overwhelm Interna- tional “make believe.” Well informed sources said thig “reality” was “war.” The editorial is attributed to Mus- solini himself. One item cited is mentioned ag a group of “fictions” In the beliel that some day war debts to the United States will be paid. The Premier in another part of the editorial says the belief that Valencia is the real seat of the Spanish Government is correct. The article further says that “one day all of the present card castles will be overwhelmed by reality.” ‘The word “war” is not mentioned but all observers state “war” is the keynote of the editorial and that it carries a warning to the world that Italy is prepared to invade and also conquer. ATTACKS MADE ARE WEAKENING Loyalists in Spain Appar- ently Holding Their Own Near Madrid MADRID, July 24.—The Insurgent pressure on the flanks of Gen. Jose Miaja's western front sullent weak- ened today with the Government forces still holding the two weeks old position despite five days of furious counter thrusts of Gen. Francisco Franco’s Army. The Insurgents have suffered losses, it is sald but Franco claims a “brilliant” victory, according to dispatches received here from Hen- jdaye, France. It is officially stated that the Loy= alists have captured some war sup- plies. The defenders have struck deep into the Insurgent ranks in the rebel territory around Las Rozas, nine miles northwest of the city along the Escorial highway. Incendiary shells of the rebel bombardment late yesterday fell into the center of Madrid as rescue squads stumbled through crackling debris seeking the bodies of men, women and children. SOURDOUGH DIES IN ANCHORAGE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 24.— William Dougherty, 65, a veteran sourdough, dled of a long illness here today. Mr. Dougherty went to Dawson in '99 and later mined near Pairbanks. He followed Interior stampedes and came to Anchorage in 1915, He worked on the Alaska Railroad un- til his retirement in 1932, e MAGAZINE BLOWS UP KRAGUJEVAC, Yugoslavia, July 24.—An explosion of a munitions magazine in the nearby village of Stragari wrecked numerous build- ings and injured many persons. The explosion took place early this morning. - Five regional national libraries costing $10,000,000 each to supple- ment the public library system of the United States would be author- 1zed by a bill recently introduced in Congress,