The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL L., NO. 7571. “ALL THE NEWS ALL TIIE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25 1937. MI:MBLR ASSOCI/\TP D PR[ ALASKA E,MPIRE 2 Countries Take Sudden Interest, Northland Matrern Seeks RIR LANES OF ALASKA GREAT SUBJECT NOW Both ‘Unitefitates and Canada Vie with Each Other on Routes CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER Valuable MICarrying In- centive for Action— P. O. Dept. Busy WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — The United States and Canada, both eager to control Alaska’s profitable air lanes, will settle the ‘problem next October around the conference table. The prize is a rich one, Post Of- ficials say, involving the right to fly large shipments of ‘gold, plati- num and furs from Alaska’s inter- ior to the outside world. Juneau-Fairbanks Service Federal officials quietly made plans to inaugurate a regular week- ly airmail schedule from Juneau to Fairbanks, via. Whitehorse. Canada is subsidizing private lines with air mail contracts and plans to shorten present schedules. Fairbanks, Alaska, and the out- lying district, supply much mail gold, platinum and furs. Mlssmg Flyers Branch’s Statement Tarllee Branch, = Second Assls-[ tant Postmaster General, said the| Post Office Department set to go| when it was discovered Canada was;l Here !s .llmmy Mattern and his co-pilot n‘ s. Jones, studying the map for their flight to Fairbanks and Point Barrow in an attempt to resciie” Sigismund Levanevisky and his five companions, lost on the flight from Moscow to Fairbanks. This picture was taken just U.S.MOVES TO SOLVE ‘FOREIGN SALMON THREAT' State Deparlmenx Under- stands Seriousness of In- vasion—Schwellebach U 8 MOVES TO 30 WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—Sena- tor Lewis Schwellenbach, Democrat of Washington, said today that the Siate Department now has full un- derstanding of the seriousness of what he termed “the foreign threat” to American salmon fishing indus- try in the North Pacific. He said Leo Sturgeon, represenia~ tive of the State Department who passed through Juneau on his in- vestigation of Japanese activities in to report on conditions that he found Sen. Schwellenbach said: “Stur- geon obtained a remarkable amount of information on his trip.” The Senator sail he feels confi- dent that the reports will clear the way for State Department negotia- tions with Japan on some conserva- tion program to be worked out. The three-man commission ap- pointed by President Roosevelt to co-operate with Canada in the prob- lem is B. lp Brennan antl Ed- ward W. Allen of Washington State | carolina, e the Bristol Bay area, is préparing| and Charles E. Jackson of South; preparing to inaugurate an air mail | before the hop-off from Oakland. Below is Mattern’s plane. pe’ath Knell for service between Edmonton and Fairbanks, via Whitehorse and Dawson. | Each country must secure per-| mission from the other to fly over| each others territory. ‘ Both projects are at a standstill, Branch said, pending the October conference and then many matters will come up and it will be a good | time to discuss the Alaska situation. | BLACK GOLD THREE SOVIET PLANES TAKING UP NORTH HUNT |Craft Reach Archangel En- route to Rudolf Isalnd on Search Flight ARCHANGEL, Aug. 25. — Three | | | Soviet rescue planes have landed uln FIELns here on a flight to reach for the missing fliers. The planes will fly, |to the Soviet air base on Rudolf i e % {Island for an extensive survey of Gusher Comes in with Sev-the Arctic waters. en Thousand Dollar Daily Capacity FOR BARTER ISLAND POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. |25 —Ordered to fly to Aklavik to BRADFORD, Pa., Aug. 25.—Black investigate further report that Es- gold late yesterday spurted from|kimos on Barter Island heard an, the first gusher in 20 years in the!unidentified plane% engines on Aug- Bradford Oil Field, Northwestem'fust 13 or 14, Bob Randall, flying Pennsylvania, near the scene of the for the Soviet government, planned | | | first ofl strike half a century ago. to leave here on the first clearing| Veteran, oil men souglt vainly of weather. He has also been in- throughout the night to cap the |structed to fly 30 miles inland $7,000 a day flow. {along the coast to locate a gasoline ————— fueling base of the Russian planes. MATTERN AT FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 25.— Jimmy Mattern arrived here from Point Barrow after first flying about Wedding Ideals Police Theory Officers Feel Racketeer Was *“‘Bumped Off,” Re- | sult of Blonde Passion IDENTIFY BODY OF GRIMSTAD IN - BOAT TRAGEDY Fox Farmer Victim When| R R ory Gasboat Explodes Off | il \Lhat vice racketeers killed Herbert Sheher Island |W. Lee to avoid losing their blonde Emenl ticket was projected today by mvemgators as the motive for the Body of the man reported burned | mysv.enom moonlight slaying in to death in the fire of the gasboat Grant Park. Mergoe off Shelter Island Munday, Two vice operators whose names mfl.emoon proved to be that of Har-|are withheld are sought as the slay-| lold Grimstad, owner of the vessel,ers of Lee, who was shot to death |it was definitely established yester- while strolling in the park early day afternoon when a party of of- Sunday with Grace Snyder, 22-year- ficials from here flew to the scene|old blonde. to investigate.« Lieut. Thomas Kelly said he be- The gasboat apparently had ex-| {lieved racketeers were angered be-' ploded, it was reported, and Grim- cause Lee intended to marry the Istad was badly mangled as well as|Woman. |burned in the fire. | 5 According to the report brought| {back by U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray, Assistant District Attorney George W. Folta and Deputy Mar- shal John McCormick, H. C. Bry- son, of Juneau, who was in a trolling‘ camp at Shelter Island, sighted the| burning boat about the same time as did the steamer Mount McKin- ley. Bryson sped to the scene with his outboard motored craft and the| steamer drew alongside. While the McKinley played a stream of wa-| | | | | e PLANES ARE SENT, GHINA Shipment of—Twenly Bel- lancas Reported on Way to Orient T0 FIGHT FORD Strife Within—Ranks Is Set- 300 miles north to the 74th parallel without sighting any trace of the missing Soviet fliers. He reports tHat the Russian ice- breaker Krassin was unable to reach Point Barrow because of the ice {and headed south again, however, the craft will try again. R R ST AR AIR CONFERENCE tled for Battle with Auto Magnate MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 25— A CIO chieftain said today that factional strife within the ranks of the United Automobile workers is cooling off as the membership pre- pared to rally for a fight which President Homer Martin said would lick Henry Ford. Enthusiastic delegates of the UAW convention cheered as Martin pre- dicted that Ford or someone for him will sign the UAW agreement. U G5 CHECK SALMON ESCAPEMENT The Bureau of Fisheries vessel| LIMA, Peru, Aug. 25.—The Peru- Widgeon was scheduled to get away |Vian government said the. United this afternoon for the Chatham States has accepted the invitation Straits area to make & check of sal-|to send delegates to an aviation con- mon escapement to the streams.|ference to be held here from Sep- Aboard will be Dr. Frederick David- (tember 16 to November 23. It is son, head of the laboratory research |Said that the United States plans work in Seattle, -nd Warden Mor-|t0 send the aircraft carrier Ranger ris Rafn. here during the conference. United States to Send Dele- gates—Ranger Also Going to Lima CGALLED BY PERU went aboard and found Grimstad dead in the engine room. He placed | a rope around the body and the Mc- Kinley hauled it free of the vessel, which sank almost immediately. The Ibody was then placed in Bryson's |small boat and he took it ashore| ‘to await the coming of officers. The authorities contacted Sam| Burkness, who was employed by Grimstad at his Hump Island fox |farm, and the former identified the body as that of Grimstad. by the officials aboard the seaplane piloted by Alex Holden, who flew them to the scene, and is now at the C. W. Carter Mortuary pending fu-| {neral arrangements. An inguest was to be held this af- ternoon. ——ee————— BODY TAKEN TO ANGOON ter on the burning Mergoe, Bryson| ‘York Times said today that 20 Bel- |lanca planes, NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The New | designed for, either | A group of Japanese infantrymen tor during the present Sino-Japan SANTANDER IS SURRENDERED TOINSURGENTS Rebels Cap!ule 15000 Loyalist Troops with Last Northwest Stronghold i | HENDAYE, Spanish-French Bor- | der, Aug. 25.—Insurgent officials, to- | day announced the surrender of‘ Santander, last remaining Govern- | mem stronghold on the nmlh\wsL Spanish coast. ‘The fall of the city was h’x%l(’nf‘d by street fighting of Santander’s| Civil Guard, part of its police and some civilian population, umch\ rushed Government troops demand- | ing immediate capitulation. Insurgent officials said all of the | 15,000 Government troops remain- ing in Santander surrendered con-{ trol of the city. This gave the Re-| | bels virtually complete control of the Northeastern half of Spain. Jose Deaguirre, President of the Basque Republic, arrived safely in’ Bayonne, France, with other mem- | bers of his government. Insurgents had attacked Santan-, |der with 100,000 soldiers. They held | Santander in a pincer-like trap and | |the city’s defense forces were cut loff from all retreat, with their| i backs to the Bay of Biscay., Advance | patrols of Franco's troops were! within five miles of the Provincial, | Capital early this morning and/ going on without much oppomuon‘ C ee—— | |- | | H ] SAYS M'NUTT ' BE NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT military or comimerctal use, are re-; War s Furv ]\ow Hlllm gin \orth Chmu Smtum ion CHINESE PUT SUDDEN STOP TO INVADERS Soldiers fr(;\fiWarships Run Into Mines, Ma- chine Gun Fire | WARSHIPS REPORTED SENT DOWN IN RIVER Foreign Residents Sur- rounded by Devastation in Heart of Shanghai SHANGHAI, Aug. 25.—Explosiont {from hidden Chinese mines and ,i withering fire from secret maching nades in the Peiping sec- A heavy artillery barrage are shown advancing with rifles and hand g ese conflict that has taken hundreds of lives. preceded this “over the lnp" action picture. Dlrect Marine S(ulmgs to China |gun nests riddled the Japanese Iregular army landing partiés and |prevented, for the time being, the {debarkation of 42,000 Japanese sol- | diers. Heavy losses in the Japanese ads jvance forces have slowed or pos- islbly halted altogether further troop landing until a more favorable time, An official Chinese announce- ment stated that 500 out of 1,500 {soldiers who tried to land at one |point were drowned in the Wrang 'poo River, The remainder were driven back to their ships. The an- \nouncement also said that two Jap- wnnese warships had foundered in ‘t«he Yangstze. | One report, which is unconfirm= jed, said the Chinese were f ' withdrawing inland in the face ,the Jap's big guns. Devastation Foreign residents in the heart of Shanghai are surrounded by devas~ tation after 13 days of furious war« fare. A total of $125,000,000 in property lay ruined in the debris. At least a hundred thousand persons were dead or wounded. The Japanese Army threat to attack Shanghai’s Nanteo area in the Chinese city south of the In= ternational Settlement threw 200,000 inhabitants into turmoil. A thou- sand persons struggled past the blazing areas to seek.refuge in the French concession. JAPS RAID- SOVIET CONSULATE SHANGHAI, Aug. 25.—Unconfirm- ed reports said that Japanese troops had entered the Soviet Consulate adjacent to the Japanese Consulate. It was closed last week as the war cnglured the area. OKLAHOMAN IS Maj. Gen. L. M. Little (left), commandant of the U. 8. Marine Corps base at San Diego, Cal, and Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont (right), commander of the Second Brigade, will direct the departure of 1,200 Marines from the base for Shanghai to assist in the protection of American lives and property during the Sino-Japanese undeclared war. Washington Is Real Capital Of U. S.; New York City Has | Lost Out;ThingsMay Change| ! identified FOUND DEAD ON CHENA SANDBAR Man Identigd—as Burford Norton, Youthful Attor- new—Was in Juneau FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 25. — The body found on the Chena River" sandbar Monday night has been as Burford Norton' of Oklahoma. Police held four persons for questioning, although there is no evidence of foul play. CHANDLER, Okla., Aug. 25. Burford Norton, Chandler attorney, The body was brought to Juneau| r|ported to have been shipped to {China within the past few days. ‘The shipment is said to have been Jsem from New Castle, Delaware. ‘M.nttern Using Penny for Good {Luck on Flight Jimmy Mattern is carrying a Child- ress penny in his shoe on his pres- ‘em trip searching for the Soviet {llers | H, C. Preslar of Childress re- |ceived the coin from a fortune tel- |ler with the suggestion it would| | Indiana Democrdt Makes| Prediction for Hap- pening, 1940 WASBHINGTON, Aug. 25.—United States Senator Sherman Minton, Democrat of Indiana, predicted that |Paul V. McNutt, American H)gh‘ | Commissioner of the Philippines, | in 1840 to succeed President Roose- | | velt. MeNutt is a former American Le- | gion Commander-in-Chief. ! ——,,-———— OUT STRIPPING | Two of Juneau’s yachts put out‘ |velt, regime | policies which By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 25— Many a New Dealer has voasted that a major accomplishment of the Roose- has been the moving “of the real capital of the United States” from New York to Wash- ington. Roosevelt partisans have declar- jed that before “the New Deal re- CHILDRESS, . Texas, Aug. 25.—|will be nominated by the Democrats turned the plain people to author- ity,” New York's financial barons jexercised a more or less invisible control of national governmental they described as |amounting, to a “dictatorship for a privileged few.” With the Roosevelt “revolution,” ‘brlng him luck if he carried it in!for fishing cruises today. Cash Cole |the less opulent Souch and West The body of Mrs. Jimmy George, a shoe. which has beén held at the Charles Soon after Preslar did as instruct- ,Carter Mortuary, was removed to-|ed, Childress received a much- day to the gasboat Merrimac, Capt. needed rain. Preslar took credit. |Willis George. and will be taken to Angoon for burial, he borrowed the penny. I When Mattern heard the story| |skippered his Jazz out of the Chan- | nel this morning with a stripping \party headed by Frank Metcalf |aboard while Joe Meherin was to put out this afternoon aboard his yacht Triton, Capt. Hayes. J NEW YORK ECLIPSED In the 1936 race dency, with its polls and prognostications of voter preference, the sharps as usual excepting Mr, Farley, of course red-penciled New York state with its large electoral vote as a very possible determinant of who would be the winner, But when tie Roosevelt jugger- naut rumbled to a new record in opposition-crushing, even the Em- pire State’s prestige as a political factor was eclipsed by a sweep that fastened the Democratic label on every staté except Maine and Ver- mont, But now New York has moved for the Presi- sharply political divergent | "East were said to have leaped into the political saddle—riding a strangely hybrid Democratic donkey with un- wonted disdain of the cnce proud and politically powerful financial back into the very center of the political picture, with the prognos- ticators predicting that the future of the New Deal may depend in (Continued on Page Five) whose body was found on the Chena River sandbar in Fairbanks two nights ago was the grandson of Bill Tilghman, famed oldtime Okahoma officer. Young Norton graduated from the University of Tennessee law school. He left here a year ago for Seattle, then went to Juneau. He was un- married and is surviv. * :* ther brother and a sister in i o .. geles. MARINES READY FOR CHINALAND Lt MARE ISLAND, Cal, Aug. 25.— The United States transport Chau- mont sailed from San Diego last night for here and upon arrival will take aboard 1,200 Marines for China. It is expected the transport will sail: late tonight for the Orient