The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7556. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1937, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SENATE ACTS, COMPROMISE COURT BILL Controversy of Past Six Months at Last Comes to an End HIGHER COURT NOT MENTIONED Measue Onlmkcls Lower Tribunals—Little Opposition WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — The Senate this afternon ended the bit- ter six month’s court controversy by passing the compromise bill for lower court procedure, drafted to supplement the President’s proposal to enlarge the Supreme Court. The measure does not even men- tion the Supreme Court and was passed without a record vote after a prefunctory debate. ! The only opposition voiced on the| floor came from Senator James| Hamilton Lewis of Illinois who con- tended the measure was unconsti- tutional because it would prevent a single Federal District Judge from restraining enforcement of Acts of Congress he deems invalid. | Administration leaders, late this! afternoon, confidently predicted ad-[ journment of Congress within two weeks. ‘» WAGE, HOUR MEASUREIS | UPTOHOUSE | Senate Passes Bill — Five-| Man Board May Be ' Appointed } | WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — If Con-! gress sets up a five-man board to fix wage and hour standards, well- informed officials predicted =that President Roosevelt will probably | appoint members representing la-' bor, industry and the public-at- large. The wage and hour measure has been passed by the Senate and is now pending in the House. 'KETCHIKAN T0 ENGAGE LOCAL | ] damage was done. The British Cor- 5 of opinion among members repre- GUNNERS ALsflmoml officers conferred with the senting capitol and labor in the in-| $895,000 GIVEN BPR FOR WORK ON ALASKA ROADS $150,000 to Be Spent on Glacier Highway—Other Projects Approved A total of $895,000 has been made available to the Bureau of Public Roads for construction work in Al- aska during the 1937 season, it was announced at the Bureau today. Of this amount $350,000 represents the usual fiscal year appropriation while the remaining $545,000 represents balances in the Forest road appro- priations which the Bureau is now authorized to expend. ‘The money will be spent on eleven major projects, miscellaneous small projects and for emergency and maintenance work, it was explained. The list of approved projects as |outlined by the Bureau and the |amount to be expended on each follows: Seward Highway, Snow River- iwalnz Section, $175,000; Moose |Pass Highway, Sections 1 and 2, bridges, $110,000; Glacier Highway, Lake Creek Bridge Section, $10,000; Glacier Highway, Auk Bay-Pearl |Harbor Section, $140,000; Salmon Hostess to beauties, herself & River Highway, Hyder Dock Ap- beauty, is Charlotte Velez (above), proach Section, $75,000; Texas Creek 17, chosen “Miss Atlantic City.” mighway, Salmon River Bridge, $40,- She will weleome beauties from all 5, Ton.gnss Highway, Wards Cope: over the nation when the annual Ref: Gotie. Badi " $50.000; T contest for the title of “Miss Amer. Refuge Cove Beotlon, $50000; Ton- jea 1937”7 opens. \gass Highway, Point Higgins-Clover ___|Pass Section, $120,000; Sitka, High- way, Thimbleberry OCreek Bridge, | $7,000; Sitka Highway, Park-Power B R IT | Station Section, $20,000; Crow Creek | Highway, Girdwood-Crow . Creek | Section, $20,00¢; Maintenance, $108,- s Ru G P 0TES “000: Emergency Work; $10,000; Mis- A % jcellaneous . Small Projects, $10,000. TO INSURGENTS pps-chirics oF Ay Aouzen COAL CONTROL Bombing Bnt. Corporal LONDON, Aug. 7.— The British| Foreign Office today dispatched a; strong note to the Spanish Insur-| gent * Authorities protesting the at- tack on the tanker British Corporal. | The protest followed a report from ADMINISTRATION Chairman Charges Attempt to Hinder and Discredit Board Are Made Alaska Quake Damages Road [KETCHIKAN BB, TEAM ARRIVES BY SHIP, PLANE Local Leaders Name Lineup in Opener This Evening | o} By sea and air, Ketchikan ball| players were descending on Juneuu‘ today, to join their advance guard | of three already in the city, pre- pared to lay siege to Firemen's Park and its score of Gastineau Channel League defenders, in a three-joust campaign. A half-dozen of the Ketchikan in- vaders were to arrive here late this afternoon with Pilot Munter in his intercoastal Airways Bellanco sea- plane, while the remainder of the attacking contingent was to lead a throng of supporters, including First City Shotgunners, north aboard the steamer Mount McKinley. First Game Tonight Although denied by rainfall, last evening, their proposed warm-up Channel League contest, the defend- ers are set for the first clash of the series this evening at 5 o'clock. Emerging from the conference room managers of the Gastineau Chan- nel squad gave out that the local lineup for the first game of the tri- ple bouts will probably include: Claude Erskine, pitcher; Red Gray, catcher; Walt Andrews, first base; Fritz Schmidt, second base;. Joe Werner', third base; Jack Schmitz or Eddie Roller, short- \stop; Tom Martin Jeft field; Hild- ling Haglund, center field; and Johnny Niemi, right field. | The powerful Ketchikan squad includes, besides the three players who arrived here earlier in the week, Art - Liljestsand, - Verne-Smith, and Ted Yates, the following, who ar-| |rived today aboard the Mount Me- Ted Yates, the rest of the First City players. Ready for “Play Rall” Eleven were in the Ketchikan baseball party that arrived here this afternoon on the Mount Mc-| Kinley, including: Vern Hoban, manager; Earl Enochs, Bill East- ham, Vern Stedman, Mickey Isaac, Joe Spindor, Vern Jones, Gay Hel- : P The most severe earthquake ever reeorded in the Territory of Alaska opened great fissures in the main highway west of Fairbanks July 22. In places rock slides, caused by the quake, blocked the road. One of the great cracks in the road is shown in the above picture. Alaskans to Vote on Question On Having 1-House Legislature ‘ PN BABE WINNING ; uUT’ STRUGGLE Calling for a referendum of Al- r sk TS At L_{le next general elec- Ffln EX'STEME [ton M@ whetlier ‘they” prefer [a one House Legislature for the ,Territory. The result of the ref- . lerendum is not binding on Congress Takes Nourishment REgu' to authorize such a change, how- larly—Breathing Aided |ever. | Another measure is to alter the |Alaskan fisheries provisions to per- {mit native residents of the Bristol | PHlL.lsD]E:LP!'fl!:;l Pa., A“E»MT*‘Bny region to take salmon by stake {Three and one-half pound Mary or set nets. Bocassini js declared out of the| Rresident Roosevelt has signed critical stage in her fight to hurdle the bill amending the Alaska home- her mother’s death into life. DUC'KsLead laws which will permit the \tors hope soon to remove her from yse by churches, hospitals or char- ithe oxygen tank which aids her jtable institutions to use wood along ,breathing. the Alaska Railroad right-of-way WASHINGTON, Aug. T7.—Bills passed by both House and Senate, relating to Alaska and sent to the White House for the Presi- dent's signature, include the follow- ing: { by Oxygen Tank Ray Roady. kan team in tonight’s game, which will be played in any weather short Situation in Hand to Oppose First City Nine | | A U. S. marine is shown on sentry duty before the American legation in Peiping where 1,600 Americans are finding sanctuary in the ancient city which has become the center of another Sino-Japanese crisis. UPRISINGS ARE REPORTED, BOTH SIDES IN SPAIN Government—Insurgent Group Also Revolts (By Associated Press) Each side of the Spanish conflict report uprisings in the enemy ter- the Teruel front, the Insurgent sa- Valencia highway. The Insurgents said the Anarchist \the British consul at Algiers thnl:‘ \the machin-gun bomb attack was, | probably executed by an Anti-Gov- b WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Chair-' Dr. William Turnbull, Superin- for fencing, building or other do- tendent of the General Hospital,' mestic purposes. ernment craft. man Charles H. Hosfered, Jr., of the examined the case records, showing & of a steady downpour, is: Enochs, catcher; Eastham, pitcher; Lllje-‘ strand, first base; Stedman, second Moderates have broken out again at Albecete. ORDERED AWAY BY SUNDAY NOON | Indtructions Are Istied by Both Naval and Con- sular Officials BOTH SIDES ARE INCREASING FORCES Nippon Fleet Reported Off Coast—Large War Funds Voted BULLETIN — HANKOW, China, Aug. 7.—Japanese Naval and Consular officials have or- dered a complete evacuation of all Japanese in this important commercial city. The Japanese officials have decreed that all nationals must leave Hankow before noon Sun- day, indicating an attack from both the land and air. The Japanese report large bodies of Chinese soldiers are concentrating in this area. Japanese squadrons are re- ported off the coast and per- haps naval planes will join with land planes in a bombardment of this area. Foreigners are preparing to leave this section, if possible. JAPAN INCREASES FORCE PEIPING, Aug. 7—The Japanese 'North China Army has been strengthened by 15,000 soldiers in | the Tientsin area which is now es- timated to have at least 45,000 sol- ‘dlem massed ready to die for Japan against the Chinese. | pecially at Hankow Pass. . . | Anarchist Moderates Fight |, e sancan resion = > "o i | MORE WAR FUNDS | TOKYO, Aug. 7—The Japanese | Parllament has ended a session of 'two weeks, voting funds for the hostilities in China. Chief among the measures is a land, Eddie Hume, Phil Elliot, and ritory while fightning continued on war appropriation of $125,000,000 which Gen. Sugiyama, War Minis= Probable lineup for the Ketchi- lient heading towards the Madrid- ter, declared is sufficient for the China hostilities unless the scope of the conflict widens. Premier Fumimaro Konoye has Issued a statement saying the situ- The Spanish Government sourc- ation in North China is “extremely | Coming on the heels of the virtual |abandenment of tHe Non-Interven-! tion Committee, which adjourned for an “indefinite period” yester-| day, the new development ca\ued} feeling to run high in European circles. i The British Corporal flashed an SOS she was being bombed and| shortly afterward wired that no| Bituminous Coal Commission today charged an attempt is being made to hinder the administration of the coal control act. “It would appear that persons who failed to prevent enactment of the llaw are now attempting to hinder the administration and to discredit the commission by insinuations that there are fundamental differences Peliiep cpeyl nlt. Allglers. dustry as well as between those rep- | base; Isaac, third base; Yates, shortstop; Spindor, center Smith, left field; Jones, right field. Helland and Hume are spare ptich-| ers, while Elliot and Roady fill utility posts. | A group of six Ketchikan fans is due to arrive here late this evening or tomorrow by plane, with Pilot Herb Munter. Six of the ball squad will head back to Ketchikan e — the girl had taken nourishment regularly during the night. The baby LI E Tu K HEAD was born yesterday after the moth- | er died one minute previously. i k SAYS ALEUTIANS | ENGINEER FOR | “NoMEFeDERAL BE WOOL GENTER es reported a group of Insurgents field; have turned against Gen. Franco| on the Toledo front. FEDERAL MAN IS HERE TO INSPECT serious.” —,e ‘Nazis Threaten ' Comeback After ! Britisl Action e — resenting the public,” Hosfered de- | clared. — e DOCTOR FOUND | 1 1 Sunday evening with Munter, fol- BUILDING HERE, for theh Quatty Wool - foir i e o7 BUILDING WORK i Production while six others will fly south with | | Alex Holden Monday morning, the | AR Andrew Sandegren Flies| SEATTLE, Aug. 7—C. C. Eubank,|remainder of the squad returning P North to Commence |of Sait Lake City, has returned|to Ketchikan by boat. {Plans Call for Enlargement of Post Office as Well k P . JIrom a visit to the Aleutian Islands Sunday Games Work on roject and he predicts that the islands| With the first battle out of the /i as General Repair |will become one of the great mut-|way tonight, the Ketchikan and| Expulsion of English Scribes Looms After London Kicks Out Germans LONDON, Aug. 7.—Expulsion of TrapJRange—: Be Scene of Sunday Morning Inter-City Conflict ‘Weapons in hand, Ketchikan shot- Junior Braneh 0f J. W. C. to gun club members have joined the| Ketchikan baseball invasion of Ju- neau, arriving here this afternoon Be Established To supervise construction of the new $360000 Federal building at, Nome, Andrew Sandegren, construc-| ton and wool producing regions of| Juneau teams will take the field | the Western Coastal area. tomorrow at 1 o'clock to complete| To supervise and Inspect con- In the cold, bracing, northern|the series in a doubleheader, un-iwmplawd repairs to the Federal |several British newspaper corres- pondents from Germany is believed likely to follow the action of the DEAD IN GELL to be met on the pier by members tion engineer with the United States of the Juneau Shot Gun Club and challenged to an informal match shoot at the local club grounds to- morrow forenoon at ‘10" o’clock, to be completed previous to the Sunday baseball double-headé¥.” All Juneau club members are to turn out at the grounds at the edge of the city limits, and from their ranks a team will be picked to en- gage the Ketchikan blasters, or, all will engage in individual com- petition, in what is likely the only non-wire inter-city shooting strife for any Juneau group this year. Now You Tell One, But Make It Good, Too ST. MATHEWS, 8. C, Aug. 7— Addison Whetstone, a farmer, is a firm believer now in kindness to animals. A year ago last spring he found a nest of field mice, fed and tamed the litter instead of killing them. When the mice left, Whetstone found a $5 bill lining the nest. Spring, 1935, and the mother mouse returned to raise another litter. Whetson again was kind, feeding the new brood. Later the mother left a second time. Whetstone went to collect and found a $10 bill in the mnest. Launched on a program to organ- ize a junior branch of the Juneau Woman’s Club, the executive board of the local club is sponsoring a tea to be held next Wednesday after- Had Been Convicted of Criminal Attack on Girl Patient Treasury Department, arrived in'clean, Flocks can feed both sum-|{On the way north to Juneau, the Juneau aboard the Aleutian and|mer and winter on sweet, short|invaders showed themselves to be was scheduled to leave for Fair-|grasees he said. a versatile group, not only do they banks by the Electra this afternoon., " gupank represents the Aleutian|make-up & menacing diamond ag- Stopping at the Gastineau Hotel,|pjvestock Company, which has fif-|gregation, but, on shipboard they | Mr. Sandegren outlined plans foryeen thousand head of sheep on|proved their worth in amateur the- noon in the Pent House of the Al- BEL AIR, Maryland, Aug. 7.— aska Electric Light and Power Com- pany building. The affair is to assemble a large group of guests, and presiding at the tea tables during the afternoon will be Mrs. R. R. Hermann and Mrs. H. L. Wood. Mrs. Ray G. Day, president; Mrs. H. 8. Graves, Mrs. A. H. Westall, Mrs J. C Cooper, Mrs. H. L. Wood and Mrs. Claude M. Hirst, board members, are to be hostesses during the afternoon. Mrs. H. L. Wood will be the jun- jor sponsor, and prospective mem- bers of the branch will be between the ages of 16 and 30. QUIET WEEK-END AS REGARDS BOATS ‘This will be the first Saturday night in months that there has not been from one to three steamers in port. The Mount McKinley left dur- ing the afternoon for the Westward and the next toot of a whistle will not be heard until midnight when the Prince George arrives south- bound. Tomorrow morning, early, sthe Baranof is scheduled south. Dr. Armen Greenhut, convicted yes- terday of a criminal attack on a 13- year old girl patient, was found dead in his cell here this morning. Oifficials will call an inquest be- fore pronouncing death a suicide. - e - OFFER FARLEY NEW POSITION BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 7. — The Buffalo Evening News says Post- master General James A. Farley has been invited to “head the sales or- ganization or possibly become exe- cutive head” of the Pierce Arrow Motor Corporation. ADMITS IT WASHINGTON, Aug. T7.—Post- master General Farley said the matter of becoming associated with the Pierce Arrow Motor Corpora- tion had been put up to him but he refused further comment. the Nome building, which will be the northernmost reinforced con-| crete structure in the world. The! building will be two stories high, and the exterior siding is to be made of | heat resistant transite. | Since only a short period for| working on the structure will be possible during the remainder of this year, Mr. Sandegren plans to {Unalaska and Umak Istands. atrics, one of their number pre- ed to start soon by the J. B. War- rack Construction Company, S. A. Ross, Construction Engineer from |the District Engineer's Office in San Francisco arrived here on the Aleutian. Mr. Ross will remain here while repairs and improvements air, wool grows long and remains|less semi-flood conditions prevail.|Building, work on which is expect- | British Home Office in expelling five German newspapermen from {employment in London, | A German communique indicated such action migt be taken. It was regarded as aimed at a few British correspondents who are not popular with the German govern- senting a finished tap dance, an- other coming through with piano solos and the whole contingent| joining in the rendering of that fine old ballad, “Take Me Out of | the Ball Game.” | - e — Big Buffalo Takes Over Road At Big Delta Up Big Dena way they have their earthquakes, but this summer Big Delta has another shock-producer ment. The Germans in Lonfon were expelled on grounds which the Home Secretary said was in the public in- terest. : are underway. | One of the improvements to be ! made in the building is enlarge- | ment of the Post Office and under the present plans considerable re-| modeling will be done on the first | floor of the building in order tol give the Post Office more room.| Safety First b his Juneau home, have a great part of the assembling in which there is a great deal more work done in the south this win-|jocal interest, according to reports ter. In Seattle, the mill work, win-|emanating from the Interior. dow frame work, etc., will be com-| 1pn approaching that point several pleted and the parts shipped north!motorists. have been held-up for for installation in the late spring some time, unable to proceed. One or early summer, depending on thepairbanks man reported a delay of e weather. over an hour. All because there] CASTLE GANDOLIFO, Italy, Aug. Mr. Sandegren, who is not a new-|yag 5 very determined fellow in the|7—Pope Pius today vigorously comer to Alaska, having formerly roaq who would not let him pass.|warned of disaster for nations which lived at Akutan in the Aleutian Is-}He is a buffalo with a suilen dispo-|Obstruct or attack the Catholic land group, has been in charge of iion education. Prelates believed he was the supervision of a number of Post? The general theory is that the referring indirectly to Germany. &“fitflr%‘(e??‘?dsl: ;’“t‘ Her ' putfalo has wandered away from SN i i ul Sandegren, 0r-| o bigon herd which is kept back| ~ MISS DeLEO RETURNING merly of the Ketchikan Chronicle. | o Big Delta. At any rafé, he has BANFIELD COMING taken over the highway as his pub-| Miss Gretchen DeLeo, of the Ter- Norman Banfield, who attended lic domain, and according to reports, ritorial Treasurer’s office, is return- the Elks Convention in Denver, is|often stops motorists by just re-|ing from a vacation in the States. a passenger aboard the Yukon for fusing to leave the road, lowering|She is a passenger aboard the Yu- l Inis head as if bent on business. kon. POPE PREDICTS It is expected that the Treasurer's office will have to be moved to make room for the expansion. C. T. Holden, Inspector, who has been at Anchorage in connection with the proposed Federal Build-4 ing there, is due to arrive here on the Alaska Monday. National Unemployed Census to Be Taken WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. — The Senate has approved of the taking of a National unemployed census, passed the measure and trotted it over to the House. The bill is by Chairman Black of the Senate La- bor Committee and directs a count before next April 1, CINCINNATI.—Robert Welch, 23, holds an airplane pilot’s license but {will not drive an automobile. “I refuse,” he says, “to take any risks.” Associate Justice, Federal Court of Appeals, Is Dead GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., Aug. T.—Justice Joshua Alexander Van Orsdel, 76, Associate Justice of |the Pederal Court of Appeals in Washington, D. C. died suddenly here today. The Associate Justice was named to his judicial position by Theodore Roosevelt in 1907