The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1937, Page 1

T VOL. L, NO. 7572. HE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUN[:AU ALASKA THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 1937 MEMBER ASSOCIATH) PRI QS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH OFFICIAL BOMBED BY JAPANESE DYER TO GET DEATH, CHILD SEXMURDERS Is Found (fil—t_y of Three Murders by Los An- geles Jury LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 26— Albert Dyer, 32-year-old WPA worker, was convicted today of mur- dering three young Inglewood girls, whose deaths shocked California more than a month ago. A Los Angeles jury found the de- fendant guilty after receiving the| case Tuesday. The death penalty is mandatory. The jury was com- posed of seven men and five women. Apparently, the deliberation was be- tween the death sentence and a recommendation for life imprison- ment. Dyer was accused of the slaying of Melba and Mabeline Everett, 9 and 7 years of age, and Jeannette Stephens, 8, in a sex frenzy. Sev- eral girl companions, who had been | accompanying the three victims, did not follow a man who lured the girls from their play. Dyer, ted, is married. He confessed after police took him in custody but later renounced his confession. District Attorney Buron Fitts de- | manded the death penalty during the testimony. CHAMBER 0.K.'S CLOSING ROADS T0 SHOOTING Membership Frowns on Ap- plying Same Regula- tions to Trails The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce at its weekly luncheon today! in Percy’s Cafe voted approval of !, the U. 8. Forest Service’s proposal | to prohibit shooting of firearms on| highways within the national forest areas and other roads which the Forest Service maintains which in- cludes all the roads in this vicin- ity. The Chamber as a whole rPJerted the recommendation of the Execu-| tive Committee that the samz re- strictions be applied to trails after Assistant Regional Forester Well- man Holbrook pointed out that he believed such an action too drastic as it was the purpese of the Forest Service to build trails that would be of value to hunters and fishermen and closing them to shooting would be eliminating their major purpose. The request of the Fairbanks Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce that some Juneau organization sponsor some boxers to compete in a tour- nament during the Fairbanks win- ter carnival was turned over to a committee of Curtis Shattuck and Norman Banfiéid for investigation and report to the Chamber. Account of his trip through the Interior was given by Curtis Shat- tuck. He reporled miming boom- ing in the Fairbanks district and a general air of prosperity through- out the area . Death for Slayer MARSHALL, Arkansas, Aug. 26.— A jury has returned a verdict of death in the electric chair for Hollis Ray, 60, timber dealer, who pleaded guilty to poisoning his wife here several weeks 8&go. Russian Claims New Parachute Record Made MOSCOW, Aug. 26—K| E. Kait- anoff today claimed a new para- chute record of 36,200 feet, thus bettering his old record of 32,150 feet made in July. Kaitanoff delayed opening his chute for ten seconds, after which it took him thirty minutes to float groundward. — .- MINING FIRM INCORPORATES Articles of incorporation were filed with the Territorial Auditor today by the Caribou Gold Dredg- ing Company of San Prancisco and Fairbanks. P. 8. Speyer is President of the company and Chester Oh- landt, Secretary. Capital is listed at 50,000 shares of non-par. who was arrested several| days after the crime was commit- | J N W %umor Al (ll;;ll;l;l | L = Here is Gov. Bibb Graves, of Alabama, and his wife, Mrs. Dixie whom he has appointed United States Senator from Alabama to succeed Senator Hugo L. Black, new Supreme Court Associate Justice. GULF IN DEMO Jammed Streets RANKS WIDENS Greet Rebels in OVER NOMINEES City Occupation Anti-New Dealers Pre(cr Tales of Anarchlst Horror, Conservative Presiden- Street Shooting llonalNomlnee1n|94O | Spread HENDAYE, Aug. 26.—Insurgent columns today rode proudly into Santander in a formal occupation of the last important city in the Spanish Government's northwest constal ledge. WASH[NL‘TON Au[, 26.--A pro- {posal frofh Senator King of Utah that the next Democraiic presiden- |tial candidate be a man from out- |side the New Deal’s inner circle to- day emphasized the fundamental {split within ranks of the Party. Streets were jammed with cheer- Senator King said the nominee ing Sg nders. Tales of anarch- jshould be someone like Senators ist’s horror, including thirst, hun- {Byrd of Virginia, Clark of Missouri ger, pillage and shooting on the or Bailey of North Carolina. streets reached here. He declared he could not second| Anarchist terrorists, the nomination by Senator Minton venge, shot doctor of Paul McNutt, American commis-their families. sioner to the Philippine Islands. MUNTER ARRIVES DAMAGE SUITS THIS AFTERNOGN LAUNGHED ON WITH ) TOURISTS SCHOOL BLAST Bringing Mr. and Mrs. O. Loughheed, of Portland, here fr()m{ Company Based on New L()ndfln Explosion | crazy for re- ! lawyers and | |Ketchikan on the scheduled Thlll\- day flight of the Intercoastal Air- ways, Pilot Herb Munter landed hlS‘ red Bellanca Pacemaker seaplane at| OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. the Marine Airways this afternoon 26.—Howard K. Berry, attorney, to- at 2 o'clock. |day said the courts will be asked to Mr. and Mrs. Lougheed made their fix responsibility for the New Lon- first airplane trip when they flew don, Texas, school explosion disas- here today to catch the steamer ter, in which hundreds of school | Northwestern, on which they arechildren were killed, when he brings booked as roundtrip tourist passen- 200 damage suits on behalf of par- gers, and which they left at Ket- ents of victims against the Parade chikan, northbound, when Mr. Gasoline Company next week. Lougheed was taken ill. The briefs allege negligence by Pilot Munter was to take off from {the company operator of the gas here this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock line to which the school’s heating for his return flight'to Ketchikan, plant was connected with no passengers booked Irom‘ BOATS LAND SALMON| f y Bringing in a catch of 20,000 Capt. Knute Hildre sold here this morning to the Alaska Coast Fish-; BERLIN, Aug. 26—Voluntary dis- eries. The ACF today also took 1,200 olution of all 42 German Rotary pounds of salmon off the Thelma,|Clubs is expected to be voted Sep- er Diana, Capt. V. Kallio, was un- Buch’s campaign against the organ- loading a salmon trip to the ACF ization. here late this afternoon. | Buch, Chief Justice of the Nazi were the Sebastian-Stuart packers ganization was Anti-Nazi since its Sadie and Yah Sure. The Sadie, Capt. | “essential - principals” ran counter 8. A. Stevens, brought in 13,000/ National Soclfl]ism pounds, while the Yah Sure, Capt. R.| Sadie took ice this morning to leave | KILL 0UTlAws again for the fishing grounds. Miss Annabelle Simpson is con- —Eigh outlaws were killed and two fined to her home with a slight case captured in skirmishes with Fed- of mumps. She is reported much im- |eral troops in Jalisco State accord- proved, ing {o advices received here here. WII.L DISBAND pounds of sable, the Louhelen,| Capt. Bernt Alstead, while the troll- |tember 4 as a result of Walter Also in with salmon trips today Party court, charged the Rofary or- Fitzgibbons, had 10,000 pounds. The | HAS MUMPS GUADLAMRA Mexico, Aug. 26. 1 FDR SIGNS 3 NEW FEDERAL REGULATIONS Appropriates $87,000,- 000, More Revenues WASHINGTON, Aug. dent Roosevelt today signed meas- ures to close loopholes in the in-y come tax law, the third deficieney bill appropriating $87,000,000 for various departments and a tax bill expected to increase the annual rev- enue from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000.! White House officials said the President probably will act on the quda bill after it reaches) Park. He is leaving Washing-1 three Hyde ton tonight to be away for weeks. | The largest item in the deficiency, {bill is a $25,000,000 construction of | | public buildings. LOCAL DOCTORS } | Bills Plug Tax Loopholes, I 26.—Presi- This Tjollar Line tender, shown Shanghai, FLY TO RENDER INOCULATIONS {Single Casersl Typhoid Sends Them on Mission ? | A single case of typhoid fever in Petersburg sent a group of doctors from the Territorial Board of Health mtu Tyee, Pillar Bay dl’\d Kake early 'today to give mnoeul ; Dr. W. W. Council, Dl J A |Carswell, Warren Eveland, Alice Moran 2nd Lillian Clements left at 5 o'clock this morning with AAT Pilot Sheldon Simmons for the three towns in which there was a proba- bility of a typhoid epidemic When an Indian woman became ill with typhoid in Petersburg sev- leral days ago, Dr. Joseph O. Rude sent some of her blood to the Ter- orial Health Department for ana- lysis. Yesterday the typhoid theory was confirmed, and members of the Health Departnfent determined to ;avoid an epidemic. | It was learned that the woman {had been in Tyee, Pillar Bay and |Kake before coming to Petersburg When the group from the Terri- ‘torfal Department of Health ar- |rived at Tyee, they learned that no, {one was ill. Arriving at Pillar Bay, (they found nearly all of the popu- lation departing following the clos-, ing *of the cannery season. At Kake the doctors left typhoid serum with the health nurse there, al- though no illness had been reported.| According to Dr. Council, the In- dians at Pillar Bay do not use the |same water supply as the white consequently, the white people may ly avoid the disease. ‘'We feel confident that there v\l]l‘ be no great outbreaks of fever,” Dr. Council stated. PAA TRANSPORT JUNEAU BOUND Making the second Pacific Alaska Airways flight to Juneau from Fair-| banks in two days, Pilots Jerry Jones and Murray Stuart are wing- ing their way here on schedule this afternoon in one of the two Lock- heed Electra transports. The plane is due to arrive at the PAA airport here this afternoon at 5 o'clock, with nine passenge: aboard from Fairbanks, and is scheduled to return to the Interior on Saturday. Passengers coming here in the Electra are: N. Nohnspn, J. John- son, D. L. Gillette, Mrs. Dale Gil- lette, Darwin Gillette, H. Berg, Ben L. Grimes, L. E. Bowell, and Mrs. H. G. Watson. HOOPLA! WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — The White House announced this after- noon that Hungary has notified the United States she wiil begin pay- ments soon of its postwar debt to this country. e [ Amateur short wave radio oper- ators accompany most exploring ex- peditions, a typhoid ypho 4 Transpacific ‘Mattern Wllh(lraws from Search for Missing Soviet Fliers; Thanks for His A ul CHAMP FIGHT ,POSTPONED TO NEXT MONDAY Thi Fi ghters Weigh Morning, But Rain In- terferes with Match BUULETIN Aug. 26. — fight betwe Tommy poned un! cause of rain. The Welsh challen weighed 207 pounds and Louis tipped the scales at 198 pounds when they were officially weighed in this morning. Both will have to be r weighed again next Monday. NEW YORK, he heavyweight Joe Louis and has been post- next Monday be- SOMETHING TO HAPPEN NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — Tomm Farr may have if it doesn’t rain. Sometime after oclock tonight something very hig, is going to happen to him. Eith he’s going to get splattered all ov the Yankee Stadium by Louis, else he is going to climb out as the new champion. Almost the unanimous opinion hat Farr will lose somewhere b his big day today, | of the ‘rmg a rich man and may go to bed ()rwnlul Slw" I‘lt;(’ for Rl’fll gees| carrying passengers to a liner before the present outbreak of hostilities in is the type of boat that braved gunfire to transport American refugees down the Whangpoo. liners were off “’Mhllng awnltln: loads similar to this. SOVIET FLIERS “MAY BE DOWN, ARCTIC CANYON Lieut. JO}\H;(;II_HHS Theory| b W;”{ins P)il(‘,k ‘I’Onl His Second Search SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 26. he sending his —Lack of radio signals from the back to the Siates six missing Soviet Polar filers might today and he will follow soon with' indicate their plane is down in his plane and copilot H. S, Jones, 'some deep canyon in the unexplored “We were closer to the estimated Arctic mountain range. This is the| position of the t plane than|view taken by Lieut. Frank John-| anyone else on our recent hop over|®on, the United States Coast Guard | the Arctic,” said Mattern. “At times radio expert. we flew blind hoping to hear Lev-! Lieut. Johnson said: anevisky’s radio and had he been|tains, if the plane is down in a sending we would have heard the canyon, would wall in radio calls signals, There were no landing ‘fa- |the fliers are trying to send.” cilities for thousands of miles,” | Lieut. Johnson has been in Al- Vartanian thanked Mattern for aska, and especially the Arctic re- his wp(-ll. aid. ‘gmm. many times. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 26 Jimmy. Mattern withdraws from the search for the missing Soviet fliers after deciding at a conference with| A. Vartanian, Soviet representative from Suat),le,_ w. here, that ube former has "done everything pos- sible.” Mattern id refueling crew 1S “The moun-| —ee AERO PROGRAM | Vi WILKINN RE | FROM 2ND FLIGHT COPPERMINE RIVER, N.W.T,| | Aug. 26.—Sir Hubert Wilkins has re- \Lmnf-(l here from a ond search l()l the missing Russian fliers. The 'Ilu,m was made over the Beaufort fieu Sir Hubert estimates that the | fliers, reckoning their flying time, \xll(’ down about 500 miles south of | the North Pole, i Considered Plans Call for| sir fubert win make another! Many Improvcments flight after refueling and when the| | S |\weather permits. Throughout Alaska | ‘ OFF ON SEARCH The wide scope of considered plans - POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. e-| {for airway and radio communica- | [ \ Ly | 10 er er or h‘ |26—Bob Randall, Canadian pilot. tween the third and cxuhlh rounds.! w," in Alaska is revealed in the re|{Iyng a plane chartered by the So- 3 BRITONS DIE IN AIR CRASH FAREHAM HAMPSHIRE, En| land, Aug. 26—A midair collision the Royal Air Rorce machine froj the Air Service Training Dep brought death to three persons he last night. One of jumped with a parachute, but was radio and ramp facilities; killed in the fall. - eee STOCK QUOTATIONS LS NEW YORK, Aug. 26. — Closin quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is i1%, 106%, American Light and Pow 9%, Anaconda 56, Bethlehem Ste 93%, Calumet 14%, Commonwealth |field, and Southern 2'%, Curtiss Wright Delta, 5%, General Motors 55%, Interna-|radio Kennecott | radio 59, New York Central 36, Southern|vana, Ste Pound | tional Harvester 111% Pacific 40%, United States 110%, Cities Service 2%, $4.98%, Republic Steel 35%, Pu Oil 19, Holly Sugar 29, Unite States Treasury bonds 225 97.18, A chison General fours 110%, Brem-|radio facilities ner no bid asked 6. DOW, JONES AVERAG The following are today's Jones averages: rafls 50.37, Do utilities 27.45 the victims ramp facilities; American Can | weather industrials 17852, plete radio facilities. part of the Alaska Ame,uuu\vm Government, has hopped off | \and Communication conference held ({rom here for Aklavik, following a |here recently which has just been|Soviet plane bound for the same mudL public. After analyzing mo’l’flmt emre aerial transportation icommunication picture in the Tc.r— ritory, the conference in its report | ‘doudm on the following “needed” ‘ g-|Improvements which it will wcum- of/mend in cooperation with Fulud]‘ m | agencies: ol-\ re| RAIL UNIONS TO STRIKE SEPT. 6 2. FOR WAGE HIKE wu, complete ramp fa- Demand 20 Per Cent Gen- "l' cilities, emergency field, complete | Cral lncrea"e Carriers | radio facilities; Skagway, complete| ¢ |radio facilities, complete ramp fa- | Says lmpo ble cilities, complete weather facilities. — Kluane, complete ramp facilties,] CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 26.—A ne| complete radio facilities, complete F. Whitney, President of the Broth- factilities; Boundary, em-|erhood of Railway Trainmen, today er|ergency field, complete radio facil- |announced that committees repre- emergency |senting five Railway Brotherhoods complete radio facilities; Big have been authorized to strike on emergeney field, complete Septembor 6 to support demands for facilities; Fairbanks, complete a general 20 per cent wage increase. facilities, lighted field; Tolo-| The organizations of engineers emergency field; Hot Springs, enginemen, firemen, switchanen and el improved field, conductors number about 250,000 | Tanana, improved field, complete men. reiradio facilities; Ruby, complete ra- Chairman H. A. Enochs of the od | dio facilities; Poorman, emergency Carriers Committee, said the finan- t-|field; Flat, improved field, complete Unalakleet, improv- Golovin, improved field; |Nome, terminal field, complete ra- |dio facilities; Kayuk, emergency field, Nulato, improved field, com- ROUTE 1 Ketchikan—Complete radio u)d Wrangell, (:omplt:lc burg; min cl!ities; Tanana Crossing, bid an increase which will annually add $116,000,000 to up'mllng costs. | > Although 90 years old, Mrs. Au- gust Klimber of Jindera, Austral- ia, seized a gun and killed a snake pear her home with one shot, led field; W, (Continued on Page Four) |attache, cial condition of the railroads for-) s AMBASSADOR 1S WOUNDED IN AIR ATTACK [Planes Sv;/oé;) Over His | Automobile, Bullets Poured Into It TRAVELLING PARTY SUBJECTED TO FIRE |Nippon Fleet Attempting Blockade of Entire Coast of China BULL HANGHAIL Aug. 26.— Vice Admiral Hase- waga, commanding the Japan- ese Naval forces has ordered an investigation into the air bombing of the British Official who has rallied in the hospital after a blood transfusion. BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Aug. 26.—~Reports of the proposed Japanese blockade of the China Coast sent President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull into a conference at the noon hour today. The Neutrality Act may be applied by the President, it is said. BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 26. The British Government has demanded a full explana-~ tion of the Shanghai affair, said Secretary Bden on his return to his desk this afternoon after a vacation. “The incident is very grave,” the official said and added that complete reports will be given to King George. i SHANGHAI, Aug. 26.—The Sino- Japanese situation took a grave ine ternational turn today when Sir Hugh E. Knatchbull Hugeshen, Brit- ish Ambassador to China, was se- riously wounded by an attack from Japanese warplanes. The automobile in which the Am- | bassador was riding from Nanking to Shanghai was attacked by two Japanese bombers near Shanghal. He was seriously wounded by spray- ing machine gun bullets. He was {rushed to a Shanghai hospital. The Ambassador's party was trav- elling in two cars, both flying large Union Jacks, 50 miles out of Shanghai. Two Japanese planes swooped rdown. The first sprayed the two cars with machine gun bullets. The sec- ond dropped bombs after the cars had stopped. Knocked Unconscious Lieut. Col. Lovat Fraser, military was knocked unconscious by a bomb when he alighted from the car but he was not wounded. The Ambagsador was hit twice in the left side of his stomach. He lost much blood. ‘The bullets caused a broken back but left the spinal cord intact. His condition is exceedingly critical since it is impossible to extract the bullets. An official British statement said there was no doubt the plunes were Japanese. A spokesman for the Japanese embassy deplored the attack. He (Continued on Page Eight) .o QUEEN NORMA HERE FRIDAY ON ALEUTIAN Mayor Talb(;Asks Juneau- ites to Show Favors to Traveler Norma Kubley, Queen of Ketchi- kan’s Fourth of July celebration this year, accompanied by her sis- ter Gertrude, is arriving in Juneau aboard the Aleutian as the guests of the Alaska Steamship Company on a tour of Southeast Alaska. Mayor J. A. Talbot informed the Empire of the tour party and fur- ther said that “any favors shown will be greatly appreciated. Mayor Thomas B. Judson, Presi- dent of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, George W. Folta, Nor- man Banfield, Exalted Ruler of the |Juneau Elks, and Charles D. Beale, President of the Rotary Club, have been notified and will give the two young ladies, daughters of Lawrence | | | | | ed honors themselves are delegate those who will do the honors, !Kubley, of Ketchikan, the request- £