The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 28, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. L., NO. 7547. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY jULY 28 1937. ALASKA EMPIRE STATE DEPT. IS ALIVE TO ALASKA FISH CONDITIONS Industry Not to Be Sacri- ficed to Foreign Inter- ests, Official Assures STURGEON SAYS STEPS " TAKEN FOR SOLUTION| Co-operation of Operators, Fishermen, Bureau Be- ing Given, He Reports Assurance that no ‘“vital national industry” such as Alaskan fisheries, is to be sacrificed to foreign inter- ests was given in Juneau today by Leo D. Sturgeon, representative of 5 the Department of State, who ar- rived here on the Victoria after a first hand investigation of the re- ported Japanese invasion of salmon fishing in Bristol Bay. “The State Department is nhve to the importance of the Alaska fishing industry, and I have become' more alive to it from first hand; study,” the official said. “Of course, no vital national industry such as this one is to be sacrificed to foreign interests. Steps are now being ta-| ken from the standpoint of conser- vation to arrive at a solution and I am of the belief a satisfactory one will be reached.” Co-operation Given Mr. Sturgeon pointed out that the' co-operative attitude of the industry is being particularly helpful to the Department in its investigation. “We have had the full coapern-' tion of the industry, the operators,! the Bureau of Fisheries, the fisher- men and every one cennected with the industry,” he safd, “and it is of great help in arriving at a true picture of the situation. They have! turned over to us all the information available and with such co-opera- tion we are being able to arrive at an intelligent approach.” Declining to comment on just what specific steps the Department would take, pending complete ana-| lysis, the official stressed that the State Depurtment was going into the problem thoroughly and that it was its pwinose to see the ques-‘ (Continued un Page Three) ARNOLDREPORTS PROGRESS MADE IN FISH PROBE, Industry FegBes! Forces of Government Bent Toward Solution Expressing belief that the re- ported Japanese fishing invasion in Alaskan waters is now receiving the “consideration it deserves,” W. C. Arnold of Ketchikan arrived in Juneau aboard the Vietoria after being in the Bristol Bay region in connection with the study of con- ditions there in ceoperation with the Department of State, the Bu- reau of Fisheries and the fishing industry. “There has been apprehension in the industry, among both the op- erators and the fishermen over the problem in Bristol Bay,” he said, “but both are now satisfied that the best forces of government are now bent toward a solution. It is a vitally important problem and now receiving the consideration it deserves.” Study was made of actual for- eign operations in the area, as ;whole country is highly mineralized. meal. !afoot and by plane. GIRL JOINS NEW ALASKA GOLD RUSH By KAY KENNEDY Former South Dakota News- paperwoman PLATINUM, Alaska, July 28. We don’t have a knifing every day, in this gold and platinum boom camp, but interesting things are happening. Planes load up with wise-looking parties and after a few days return with wise guys looking twinkly and pleased with themselves. Of course, it is the gravest breach stampeding etiquette to ask of KAY KENNEDY Arrives at Platinum where they've been—and you would- n't ¢nd out if you DID ask—but soon rumors float about that the latest and best creek has been dis- covered, and pretty soon there's another little stampede on. Mineral Everywhere They fly in here from hundreds of miles around. Apparently the The section is not spoiled yet— ,doors are left open safely, and plat- inum is tossed around like so much Nothing is ever taken—or hnan't been so far. The first mail since early last April arrived near the end of June, so reading matter is never thrown away, but is passed from hand to hand until entirely worn out. I arrived here with exactly 50 cents in my pocket. I've traveled I've done a little typing, a little cooking, some writing. I lived in the new road- house (hotel to you folks “outside”), then moved to a house scow (used for lightering cargo from ships to this wharfless waterfront), and am now enthroned in the attic of the trading post where I sleep on all (kinds of smelly wolverine, squirrel, fox and bear skins. My chair is a gas box and my desk a rolled oats carton. ‘We've had no newspapers of re- cent date and our radio connections are just radio telephone between camps so we're highly ignorant of what is going on in the world, save by word of mouth from airplane pi- lots and new arrivals. Planes Carry Freight Weather conditions change sud- denly here and pilots are forced to work fast when they can. Pilot M. M. Sasseen, a veteran flyer, formerly of Los Angeles, has freighted tons of equipment to nearby prospect camps. At one, he lands on a mountain top 50 feet wide and 200 feet long, with an in- cline at each end. It’s a great country, but a wet one—in 1934, the first year of ma- jor ' prospecting, there were three days it didn’t rain! previously reported by H. B. Friele, Vice-President of the Nakat Pack- ing Company and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Association of Pacific Fisheries who was in Juneau last week, Mr. Aronld said and some revealing jormation was gained which was turned over to the State Department for its use in attacking the problem. R — General Motors Earnings Crash NEW YORK July 28.—A drop of FLAMES SWEEP STANDARD 0IL AT WRANGELL Superinlend—e;is House and One Large Tank Report- ed Ablaze by Pilot Barr Pilot L. F. Barr, AAT flier, re-| turned to Juneau this noon from a flight to Wrangell with a report that the Standard Ofl plant at! Wrangell is ablaze, with flames lick- ing from the top of one large stor- age tank, the house of Superintend- ent Z. M. Bradford already destroy- | ed, and the remainder of the plant| inevitably doomed to go up ln; flames. Pilot Barr reported firemen and workers battling valiantly to stem the conflagration, but seemingly fruitlessly. According to friends of the Brad- fords in Juneau, Mrs. Bradford, who recently fell gnd broke an ankle, was in the home at the time, having left the hospital several weeks ago. Presumably she was re- moved to safety. The Bradfords are well-known here, having been residents of Ju- neau for many years. He is a for- mer postmaster, and was connected with the Standard Oil here before transferred to Craig and later to Wrangell. Cummings Asked For Ruling On President Wants to Know| Whether Must Make Se- lection During Congress ‘WASHINGTON, July 28.—Wheth- er President Roosevelt must ap- point the Supreme Court successor to Justice Willis Van Devanter be- “|fore the adjournment of the pres- ent Congress depends upon Attor-! ney-General Homer Cummings’| decision in reply to the President’s request for a ruling. ‘The President told a press con- ference late yesterday afternoon that he had asked the Attorney-; General for a ruling on the point, | because of lack of precedent. — e ee——— HOUSE APPROVES SIX ASSISTANTS FOR PRESIDENT Senate Now to Act Upon First Step in Govenment Reorganiztion WASHINGTON, July 28. — The Senate has received the bill, al- ready approved by the House, to give the President authority to ap- point six administrative assistants. The measure authorizes a part of President Roosevelt’s Government Reorganization Program, which is given a chance for enactment this session. Other parts of the pro- gram include the extension of the Civil Service and re-arrangement of Government depmments and agencies. The House passed the bill by a vote of 260 to 88 over Republican protests. Democrats insisted the assistants were needed because the President is over-worked with only three secretaries. Republicans call- ed them “errand boys and flunkies.” Asserts Hughes ~ Is Nazi Agent Girl Enemy of Japan Seeks Backers in U . | | | o UNDER 2 col cut GIRL ENEMY OF CHINESE ‘JOAN OF ARC’ From a quiet, conversational pose, little Loh Tsei works herself into a body-twisting climax as she describes Chinese-Japanese relations. By LYDIA GRAY SHAW ' NEW YORK, July 28.—Loh Tsei, inciter of riots, leader of strikes, | speech-maker extraordinary, has |never been in the United States be- |fore. | But she’s now tearing country on a speaking lincludes the major cities. Speaking in English, too. She says everyone learns to speak English in China, She's 23. She calls that “old.” But the most remarkable thingito China, buying factories in north- about her is that she cherishes alern China where textiles are the hatred more terrifying than a bfll—’pflncfipnl industry, and exploiting tery of machine guns against the|Chinese labor. Japanese who are “invading” China.| It isn’t hard, she says, to arouse Intense Talker |Chinse women in the areas where | For Miss Tsei is a leader in meianunese factories are located. They are already aroused, hecause they work long hours and receive paltry pay. They know what the Japan- ese have done to them. They have personal grievances. Symbolism For Peasants Students understand, too. They have been busy organizing classes among the more ignorant. aroused over the arrest of six prom- inent professional women in China, who were all active in the Liberal- ization association. And so she is going about the across the tour that —even those born in this country -——what their fellow-countrymen are doing in China. She wants finan- cial help, too. But she’s mainly |National Liberalization. And that, she says, means liberation from the Japanese. She gets so intense about the sit- uation that she gets herself all} twisted up in a chair when she starts| talking about it. There are rich natural resources) in China which Japan wants, she| How do they explain this compli- says. Even before the present rum-|cated Japanese continental policy pus, Japan has penetrated into (ive;lo the uneducated? They do it provinces in northern China. And|symbolically, says Miss Tsei. Plays unless Chinese here as well as in|are effective. So are songs. The| (their native country rouse them- peasants can understand them. !selves and unite, she says, their| What will the outcome be? If wealtmest provinces will slip out|Japan will return to China “all the thmugh their fingers. \stolen territory,” says Miss ’I‘sei So far Miss Tsei has escaped bod- ‘lhere will be no conflict. Other- ily harm. But she's tremendously wise—China will never give in. Amos and Andy Are to Lose ! Girl Star HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 28. |Elinor Harriot, who plays the part of the girl and also of the other UVER PULE JUMP | women characters in Amos and An- dy skits, is marrying Frank Na- | than, Los Angeles insurance man, Three Government Agen- . . Honolulu on a honeymon trip. cies Are to Investigate mesi DIE IN CRASH MATTERN T0 GET Jimmy Mattern’s application for al permit to fly across the North Pole| to Moscow, from California. Mat- that three Government agencies| AMSTERDAM, July 28. — Two would investigate to determine what Americans and twelve others are re- value might result from the flight Ported to have been killed when a mits when proposed flights meet} The plane Emeded in midair. technical and other requtrements‘ He also said the Government lacks H”me Lua" Ba"k Technical experts of the Bureau| nehe"t“ra Iss"fl are to inspect Mattern’s equipment | tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper' Twelve Others Are Killed tern flew here from Kansas Cny' yesterday to make a personal plea before any permit would be issued. EDut.ch airliner crashed at Hal, Discussing the matter in a press Belgium. “knowledge of polar conditions” and| that he would have the Navy, the | N and plane this afternoon. Mattern Is uvers“bscnbed said he is prepared to take off from| has indicated that the Bureau of |Air Commerce will grant Aviator| When Airliner Ex- for the permit. | plodes in Midair Secretary Roper said, however,‘ conference, he said the Bureau | The fuil names and addresses of lacks authority to withhold per- |the victims are not available. Army, and the Weather Bureau| study the proposed flight. San Diego a week after his permit | United States telling the Chinese| interested in reporting that Japan| has been busy smuggling goods m-l on August 18 and they will go to| (ficient management and waste of is granted, and would refuel OVf'lr WASHINGTON, July 28. — The He said that both the State De-|$22000,000 in the net earnings of partment and the Bureau of Fish-|the General Motors Corporation for eries were cooperating in every way|the quarter ending in June is with the industry and the fisher-|ascribed in part to labor troubles men and that he felt the two de-|py Chairman Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. partments, working together, would| Sloan indicated price increases arrive at a solution to the admit-|are being considered because of the tedly ticklish problem. rising cost of production. Mr. Arnold expects to continue ————————— south to his home in Ketchikan Stokes, North Carolina, county shortly where he has a law prac-|farmers report the best small grain tice. crop of recent years, LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 28— Ingram Hughes, founder and Na- tional Chairman of the American Nationalist Party, today denied em- phatically the charge made by Representative Samuel Dickstein, of New York, that he was a Nazi agent The charge was read into the Congressional Record. “He is talking through his hat,” Hughes said. oo | Home Loan Bank Board announces (that the new issue of $28,000,000 - | debentures has been oversubscribed Automobiles Crash; | Manmd Dymg The issue is for year at one |and one-fourth per cent. GALLUP, New Mexico, July 28. —One man was killed and one man regional banks to finance home and a woman are dying as the| construction, making purchases result of an auto colision east of through local building and loan here early this morning. | assoctations. 1 The. sum will be used by twelve | 4 BRITISH RULERS - ARE IN DANGER, Gas Main prlosnon, Two Dynamiting Incidents Occur, Royal Visit BELFAST, Northern Ireland, July 28—A wide area of Belfast was rocked by an explosion of a gas main, one half mile from where King George and his Queen were traveling to the City Hall on a Coronation visit. Both the King and Queen heard the blast. The Customs Building was badly damaged by another blast and one Jjured. Another incident, which is the miting of a bridge, ten minutes after an excursion train, bringing hun- dreds here for the Ruler's visit, passed over it. The dynamiting of the Customs building and also the bridge, is at- tributed to the authorities to “Re- publican Terrorists.” BRITAIN STILL RULES SEA:HAS BIGGEST FLEET Rate Next in Line in _Sea_Power WASHINGTON, July 28, — The Navy Department has disclosed that Great Britain is far out in| front of all other nations in sea | ‘power. His Majesty’s Fleet in- cludes 285 warships, | 216,398 tons, and has 96 more ves- | |sels, aggregating 541,000 tons, under | construction. | | The United States is second with 325 ships for a total of 1,083, 330“ |tons now in service, and has 87| ’addmonnl naval craft, totalling, 385,565 tons, under construction. Germany ranks third among nav- al powors | PROJECT BOARD. CALLS STRIKE, PROTEST WASTE BELFAST BLAST| child is reported to have been in- | cause of speculation, is the dyna- | United Slalgld Germany | totalling 1,-| Ambassador Nelson T. Johnsen. BEATEN BY JAPANESE REPORT NIPPON FORCES ROUTED INFIRST BATTLE | Japs Open—At—lack When | Nanking Army Refuses to . Evacuate Trouble Zone ‘W& B} \ CAPITALS PREPARE 15 L FOR HOSTILITIES Americans Taking Refuge in Embassy Compound in" Peiping—Wound Marine PEIPING, July 28—The Chinese |Twenty Ninth Army is reported to have smashed the Japanese Peiping offensive in the first major battle |of North China informal war. The {Japanese attacked at dawn after the expiration of an ultimatum de- 'manding evacuation. | A withering aerial attack shat~ tered the Chinese lines, but Chinese commanders declared their troops recovered and captured Fengtai, the Japanese field headquarters at Langang, and important rallway Junctions and severed ananen communications in the battle area, The Japanese denied the report and declared the Chinese had been hurled back. Both capitals, Tokyo and Nan- king, made declarations of hostili- ties. | : k Chinese dispatches said an Amer- | § i ican soldier had been wounded in Peiping in a crossfire. In Tokyo, Japanese legislators ap- & proved a thirty-million-dollar war S appropriation unanimously. American Ambassador Joseph C, _Grew. expressed alarm.of the perik of 1,300 Americans in the Peiping area and appealed to Foreign Min- |ister Hiroto to prevent the spread of the undeclared war. Brutal treatment accorded two American women by Japanese soldiers when they were passing the U. 8. Embassy at Peiping re- sulted in a vigorous protsst by | AMERICAN MARINE REPORTED WOUNDED PEIPING, July 28. by wireless to {Shanghai — The majority of 675 American civilians have taken ref- uge in the United States Embassy compound tonight at the close of |the first day of major Chinese- |Japanese hostilities. Five hundred marines hastily set up an emergen- |ey encampment. Julius Fliszar Easton of Penn- |sylvania, member of the Marine |guard, was wounded slightly when ‘med upon by Chinese soldiers, who ‘apparently took him for a Japanese soldier. It is apparently confirmed tonight. that the Chinese Twenty Ninth .nrmy had scored heavily against the apanese, Miss Carol Lathrop (above), daughter of the late Comman- der Patrick-Lathrop, U.S.N., and her companion, Mrs. Helen Jones, of Detroit, the two vic- uims, were kicked and beaten by the wldlers PLAN FIGHT, INFANTILE PARALYSI President Urges Expansion * 1130 Workers to Walkout on Tygart Valley ome Project | | | | | | | | ELKINS, W. Va., July 28. — The' Board of Directors of the Tygert| Valley Homestead, Federal Reset- tlement project, has called a strike| of the men workers, listing five rea- sons for the action. The board announced that 130 workers would join the walkout,| reasons for which include, “Inef-| Federal and Tygart Valley Associa- tion funds.” The project was started in 1933. with a $400,000 Federal grant. The men live on homesteads and work‘ their tarms WILSON QUITS POSITION WITH ALASKA 8.3, GO, SEATTLE, July 28—~Thomas B. Wilson, Vice-President and General Manager of the Alaska Steamship Company, today announced his re- tirement effective August 1. He has been recovering from a recent illness. Wilson said he would con- tinue as Vice-President, on leave. He plans to recuperate at his ranch at Carmel, California. Charles Bocking, of New York City, associated with the Kennecott| Copper Corporation, will succeed ‘Wilson. During the recent maritime strike, Wilson was a member of the Coast Committee of Operators repre- | expand | JAPANESE WARN 1 OF FURTHER ONSLAUGHTS ‘ TIENTSIN, Thursday, July 20.— A Japanese air fleet roared over WASHINGTON, July 28.—Pes- the countryside about Peiping ear- ident Roosevelt has taken steps to ly today dropping leaflets warning the nation-wide infantile *he Chinese populace to evacuate rafter a full day of undeclared war in North China that extended from zation program, the trustees of the the former dragon capital to the Birthday Ball Commission said. | sea. The Trustees and the Warm! Airmen reported on their return springs Foundation are working for Nere that the city of Peiping ) g peared like a city of the dead.” enlargement of the program at Lhe‘ The warning told the inhabitants request of the President. they might expect further on- slaughts at daybreak. RUSHTUN ss & | AMERICANS IN y 1y 1 DANGER ZONE | WASHINGTON, July 28. — The RusHTnN I-F M American embassy at Peiping has L] 1y RUSHTON,ETC. reported to the State Department |that some 15 Americans are prefer- ring to remain in their homes in the area where there is considerable bombing and. artillery fire. HUNTER, Utah, July 28.—When the Hunter baseball team takes the field, it's “Rushton to Rushton to Rushton”—no matter where the ball is. STURGEON, ARNOLD | INVITED TO ATTEND Because the team includes the CHMERLUNCHEON Rushton brother: Sam, pitcher; Chris, pitcher or catcher; Syl, first Leo D. Sturgeon, representative ‘ A of the State Department, who is in baseman, ‘md‘ Ed lllf!ll(ld.(l, "nd‘Juneau enroute to Washington after treir cousins—all Rushtons—Owen, 2 S an investigation of reported Japan- second base; Clyde, shortstop; Law- rence, third base; Warren, outfield, :;e fishing fo Bristol Bay, and W. and Parley, outfield. A complete|o:, Amold of Ketchikan, have been of Program — Steps Immediately Taken paralysis prevention, and immuni- family nine. The roster also includes Randy Moesser, Levi Evans, Claude Coon and George Feulner. The Rushton team-—at least sev- en of 'em play in every game— Victory Independence league, and captured three of its first four contests in the Farm Bureau cir- senting the Northwest. cuit. | won 12 of its first 13 games in !hel invited to be guests of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon at its weekly luncheon in Per- cy's Cafe. > Business to be taken up includes a resolution from the Juneau Cen- tral Labor Council in which inves- tigation by the La Follette Senate Civil Liberties Committee is asked of conditions in Juneau, alleging that civil liberties are be,~g violated here. X