The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7573. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, JUNEAU, ALASK hinese A MATTERN PLANS REMAINING HERE TILL HUNT OVER Flier Brings Refueling Crew to Catch Ship — He and Jones to Stay in Alaska Not abandoned, but in abeynnce" is Jimmy Mattern’s future part in the search for Pilot Sigismund Le- vanevisky, Navigator Hector I. Lev- chenko and their four Soviet com- panions lost somewhere ‘“on top of the world.” “Smiling Jimmy” swept down on Juneau and landed at the PAA air- port here at 4 o'clock yesterday af- | ternoon for his first call since he was flown into this city in 1833 by Pilot Bob Ellis, just after being res- cued by Levanevisky and Levchen- ko from the abrupt ending in the Soviet wilds of his only two-thirds successful round-the-world jaunt. Shortly after his arrival here, Mattern told newsmen at a con- ference in the lobby of the Gastin- eau Hotel, where he is staying, that releases from Fairbanks, to the ef- fect that he hdd completely given over the search for the Soviet fliers, were partly in error. To Stay in Alaska “Although we have done all that we can with our type of ship at| this time, I and my navigator, H. 8. Jones, will remain in Alaska un- til the search is suoeessful or is given up as altogether hopeless,” Mattern declared. He thought is, likely that he would remain in Ju- neau for a time, “I am in closer com- munication with the States from here, and I am only about three hours further away from the search center, not enough to matter great- ly.” The purpose of his flight to Ju- neau at this time, Mattern de- clared, was to bring Garland Lin- coln, Charles A. Marshall and Frank Tomick, the crew of his cracked- up re-fueling plane, out to where| they could board a steamer to re-| turn to California, Handicapped by Loss Mattern said the loss of the re- fueling ship had considerably handi- capped him in the search, cutting| down the cruishing range of his ship from 5,700 miles to about 2,500 miles. Since the record dash northward on which he whipped through the skies from Oakland, 2,600° miles non- stop, to Fairbanks in 13 hours and 35 minutes flying time, Mattern has | made two swings well out over the Arctic Ocean ice fields; the second carrying him halfway from the Arc- tic Coast to the North Pole, along the proposed line of the Soviet! flight, the 148th meridian. | Taking off from Fairbanks as soon after his arrival there as weather would permit, Mattern coursed over the meridian up to and beyond the coastline as far as his fuel supply would permit, then, retracing back to the coast, he followed along it to Point Barrow. Second Scout Trip After taking on as much fuel at Barrow as he could lift, he once Mattern, Jon Here is Pilot Jimmie Mattern (left) who arrived in Juneau yesterday two made a flight over the Arctic the PAA airport, in search of the six missing Soviet fliers, but found no trace. es in Juneau and H. 8. Jones (right), navigator, afternoon f rom Fairbanks. The in their vlane, also in Juneau at RAILSTRIKE IS AVERTED FOR PRESENT TIME Both Sides to Submit Con- troversy to Federal Mediation Board CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 27—Inter- vention by the National Mediation Board forestalled ‘the threatened strike of 350,000 members of the Big Five Railroad Brotherhoods, which was set for September 6 unless wage demands for a 20 percent increase were granted. Both the uniomists and the car-| riers agreed late last night to sub- mit their controversy to the Fed- eral Agency and hearings will stnrt‘ tomorrow. - FOUR KILLED, PLANE CRASH, IN NEW YORK State Assemblyman, Wife,: and Two Others Caught in Rain and Fog ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 2%.—The bodies of State Assemblyman Prit- chard Strofg, wealthy Rochester following delegates to attend the again scouted out over Levanevisky’s ;avmflon enthusiast, and three com- purported route, that time 300 miles|panions were found this morning further than on his previous at- tempt, but still without discerning 1 any trace of the Soviet plane. From that trip he circled back to land along a different meridian and cruised for a while along the Arctic | shore eastward before turning back to Barrow. ‘ “Jones and I went as far toward | the pole as we possibly could with | the amount of fuel that we were able to take off with. We can do 5o more with our plane. With the, kind of weather that is now setting in, flying boats and ships on skis| are the only practical equipment| for the search, Planes of that type will be able to carry on the search | from the bases that are being set up along the Arctic Coast. Confers With Backer “I have conferred with my back-| er, M. L. Benedum, of Piftsburgh, | and have his approval for remamlng: on hand in Alaska until the search is definitely over. In case some hint is gained by other search planes which will point to the whereabouts |the suicide patrols over San Fran-!sands of workmen in the plants of of Levanevisky and his crew, then| my long-range ship may be useful. Until then we have done all we can,” Mattern said. The Smiling Flier here expressed appreciation for the full coopera-< (Continued on Page Two) | | in Strong's twisted plane, one mile| south of Albany airport. The plane was caught in rain and fog and crashed. Other victims were Mrs. Strong,‘ Charles Judson, investment counsel, | and Pilot Clarence Robinson. To Attempt to Creator of Happy Hooligan Passes Away NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Aug. 27. —Frederick Bury Opper, 80, creator of Happy Hooligan and his mis- chievous grinning nephews, iz dead here as the result of heart disease. He never attended an art school and was the dean of American comic strip artists. Opper was born in Madison, Ohil e e——— SOURDOUBHS IN SESSION International Union Meets in Toronto — Next in Portland | TORONTO, Aug. 27. — M. A, Mahoney, of Ottawa, was elected President of the International Sour- dough Union, in session here, and| T. M. Buckholz, of Los Angeles, was elected First Vice-President. Lulu Fairbanks was re-elected| Secretary-Treasurer. Portland, Oregon, was chosen as| the place for the next convenuon.{ JUNIOR DELEGATES The Junior Alaska-Yukon. Pion- eers of Seattle, recently elected the Toronto session: George V. Snow, John W. Day, Irvin F. Heise, Roy E. Mathews, Joe Miller, Jerald B. Renshaw, Harold E. Hughes, Jones Engstrom, Mauris Torring, Eugene B, Davis, Wallace Calderhead and M. G. Blazer. e LEWIS FLINGS CHALLENGE TO " AUTO MAGNATE EARLY CLOSING |Former lpalr and surveys of rivers and har- re Stemming Japan Treasury, An IN CERTAIN S, E. AREAS 0RUEREB SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y., Aug. 27. — —Andrew W. Mellon, former Sec- t retary of the Treasury and a former Ambassador to Great Britain, died last evening of uremia and bron- chial pneumcnia, at the age of 83. The end was peaceful. Mellon came here to the home of his daughter, Mrs. David Bruce, in July. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon in the Pittsburgh st Liberty Presbyterian Church, " magnificent church which Mel- 16n’s brother, the late R. B. Mellon, adl‘: possible by benefactions. The dy will be taken to Pittsburgh te today. In spite of his weakening health, he remained at Washington, D. C., throughout the winter and spring, e complete arrangements for his Jast great undertaking, a National Gallery of Art. Eleven years as Secretary of the Treasury, the second longest term in the history of that office and the ly one held under three succes- E‘]«'e Presidents, made Andrew W. ellon an outstanding figure in The new regulations mean sum-=!ywod finance. mer fishing was closed a day early 4 % in both the above mentionsd aredsi} He rounded out his public service and that fall fishing will be open as Ambassador to the Cmu‘t‘ of St. from October 1 to October 15, Alass ’:mes‘ the highest diplomatic post ka Agent L. G. Wingard explained{§® ‘¢ &ift of the Government. here in announcing that the west{ This public record crowned a coast of Prince of Wales Island was being closed at 6 o'clock tonight, ‘he built up one of the great fortunes two days early, instead of bel 'of ‘the world. But it brought him! permitted to .continue through into the whirl of politics, made 29th a§ previously fixed. The early opposttion closing is to permit adequate escape- critics, There was an abortive at- ment to the streams. tempt to indict him in 1934 on ——- e icharges of evading income taxes PRESID and, when this failed, he had to Clarence Strait and Wesf Coast of Prince of Wales Island Affected WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — The Department of Commerce has ex- tended control over commercial sal- mon fishing in Clarence Strait dis- trict, Southeast Alaska waters, and amended the existing regulations to prohibit commereial fishing for sal- mon, other than trolling, north of a line extending from Narrow Point/ to Ernest Point from 6 p.m. today, August 27, to 6 a.m. October 1 and for the remainder of the calendar year after 6 p.m. October 15. Another new regulation places the same limits on fishing between & line extending from Narrow Point, to Ernest Point ‘and a line from Approach Point to Caamano Point from 6 p.m. August 24 to 6 a.m. O¢= tober 1 and for the remainder of the year after 6 p.m. October 15. aun @ shining mark for bors. REVOLUTIONARY BLIND LANDING U. S. Secretary of Passes Away at Age of 83 \lengthy career as a banker in which/|, NOW PROSPECT | i i But Mellon, a shy, inperturable President Roosevelt started his three|fact that under his guidance the Ambassador to Great Britain. in 1881 and his two years under little man, given to slow speech, was a fighter, and he hit back lustily. Handles Post-War Finances Mellon’s Treasury career was no- weeks stay here by signing the|UNited States, of all the countries Flood Control bill authorizing $34,-|*Pgaged in the World War, was the| 000,000 for new projects, mostly in|first to attain a balanced budget| |after that conflict. Only one other head of the De-! partment exeeeded the length of! this service, Albert Gallatin holding| the post under Presidents Jefferson '} a ts 3 President Benjamin Harrison start- Giant Airliners Slide Safely |ing in 1889, Mellon stepped into the Treasury when the Government’s financial| to Earth by Radio answer before the Board of Tax Ap- AT HYDE PARK table for its handling of difficult} he Ohlo Valley and at Mpmphis, " ge “assumed the Secretaryship and Madison from 1801 until the Beams |affairs were in a gloomy state, re- peals in Washington a claim by the | | | | post-war financial problems, includ- 2 Tenn. when President Harding took office spring of 1813. Another Secretary, sulting largely from a depression Government for alleged shortages in his 1931 returns, the claim in- cluding allegations of fraud and evasion. Two Important Measures| APPI’OVCd for Various ing refunding agreements with 13 Projects, Surveys |debtor nations of Europe; tax re- |ductions, a cut of 20 per cent in the| HYDE PARK, N. Y\, Aug. 97| American national debt and the President Roosevelt also signed: the Rivers and Harbors bill author-|March 4, 1921, and held it under| izing $54,000,000 for construction, re- Presidents Coolidge and Hoover un- til February 5, 1932, when the Sen- ate . confirmed his nomination as William Windom, held office under three Presidents, but there was a lapse between his brief service un- der Presidents Garfield and Arthur which followed the inflationary| boom during and immediately after the war. Tax rates were the high-| est in history and the internal reve~ OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 27.—Giant airliners sliding down radio beams| to safe landings on fog-enshrouded| airways was the prospect held out{ |Mellon ana” Sons. PRICE TEN CENTS ese CRACK TROOPS SENT AGAINST NIPPON FORCE Battleground at Shanghai| Smoking, Thunder- ing Today drew Mellon, | | | { 5 | JAP INFANTRYMEN FACE SHEET OF FIRE | [ | | 1 | | One Town .é;med, Fired, Reduced to Ashes—New Entanglement SHANGHAI, Aug. 27.—Three di- visions of China’s finest warriors shed tonight into the smoking |and thundering battleground north- ® [west of Shanghai where the Chin- § [cse are fighting desperately to |stem the Japan®se charge against |the back door of the city Bombs, shells, and machine guns |turned the town of Letient, 12| miles out of Shanghai, into a smok-/| ing heap of ashes. Near the town, waves of Japanese |infantrymen met a sheet of ma- chine gun fire in a bayonet charge |through the smimmering rice fields. Entanglements | In the background of the battle lay a potent factor that might en- tangle Great Britain in the Orien- tal warfare. Sir Hugh Montgomery Khatchibell Hugessen, Brilish Am- bassador to China, who was injured by Japanece bullefs when an. air ANDREW W. MEL attacks in Congress, but he went about his ‘work generally heedless of detractors and seldom tok public|Squadron yesterday fired and bomb- notice of their charges. The differ-|©d upon his official automobile, ences arose on subjects ranging from |50 miles from Shanghsi, rallied taxation, prohibition enforcement, SHghtly after a blood transfusion, the soldiers' bonus, war debt set- However, he is still in a critical tlements and farm relief, to charges condition. that he was a representative of big| United States seamen still = re- business and was holding office in|Mained in danger as the tide of violation of a law prohibiting the battle swung near their position. Secretary of the Treasury from en- A thousand persons were killed and gaging in trade. Twice efforts were |Wounded made to remove him, but his posi-| tion proved unassailable. | AP PLANES SLAUGHTER His attitude on prohibition was| 150 COOLIES IN AIR RAID a realistic one. Although dnvuting‘ NANKING, Aug. 27. — Japanese much thought to a reorganization|airplanes today killed nearly 150 of prohibition enforcement on acivilians, most of them coolies, in more efficient basis, he pointed out a daylight air raid. in his annual reports the great dif-| The Japanese swooped down in ficulties of attempting to make another raid on the Chinese capital “wet” states “dry” against their|tonight while the Diplomatic Corps wishes. (was giving a banquet for American Mellon’s first demand for reduc-|Ambassador Nedson Johnson. tion of heayy surtaxes failed to ob-| He and other envoys earlier had tain = Congressional support, bemg!asked the Japanese to confine their opposed even by some of the Ad‘:mlds to military objectives. The ministration leaders. Turning to the screech of air defenes sirens failed people, however, he won approval to stop the banquet which marked that meant passage of his revenue Johnson’s thirtieth anniversary of bills in 1926. his entrance into the diplomatic A mere tyro in poitticai maneuy- |SeTvice. ering when he entered the Cabinet,| his years of service as head of Gov- ernment finances made his astute in that phase’ of American life. At the 1928 Republican National Con-| vention when the “stop-Hoover” movement was at its height, he was s Boarded by | instrumental in swinging the Penn-| sylvania_delegation to the Hoover ] H column at a strategic moment, thus{ s“vlet Ufllcers assuring the Californian’s numma-i tion. MRS G G S Liner Victoria | Son of Private Banker | 2 Of Irish Protestant stock, he was;Gusn}}l),oatO‘Sf tEaps émencan 1p st pe— born March 24, 1854, at Pittsburgh,| the third of five sons of Judge Permit Demanded Thomas and Sarah Jane Negley Mellon, His father was judge in & the Allegheny County Court and NOME, Alaska, Aug. 27.—Steamer retired from the bench in 1869 to|Victoria, of the Alaska Steamship establish the banking house of T. Company, sailed southbound yester- |day after an Arctic cruise. Onsla {Educator Is Third Known Tells UAW They Are “Go- ing to Organize Ford Workers” MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug. 27. — John L. Lewis today flung down the gauntlet to Henry Ford with the| declaration that the United Auto-| Person to Take mobile Workers are “going to organ- ize Ford workers.” Jump to Death Lewis told delegatés of the UAW | convention they had “work to do in| OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 27. — State the field in bringing the right to Highway officers today tightened themselves to organize many thou- Prevent Suicide Laanfilt Frisco dsw‘; great bridges as the result Henry Ford.” of the plunge of Robert E. Star-| The CIO Chieftain’s challenge | key, 41, educator. to Ford came near the close of his Starkey plunged to his death from address. It brought a wild demon- | the Trans-Bay span. He is the third stration equalled only by the en- today as a result of tests made with a revolutionary new aid to blind flying. Fifty times' two huge transports landed on the Oakland airport with nothing to guide the pilots except two tiny needles on the instrument boards in sealed and covered cock- | pits. The appartus utilized the high frequency directional beam lifting from the ground on the same angle that descending planes follows. Hundred Square Miles, Goodnews Bay, Surveyed ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 27.— John S. Mertie, Jr., of the Geologi- cal Survey of Washington, D. C., said 100 square miles of the Good- news Bay mining area were survey- person known to have taken the fa-'thusiasm that marked his appenr- tal leap. . |ance on the platform. ed this season. Work will continue next year. nue laws, hurriedly drawn to bring| in war funds, constantly were ob- Jects of litigation~ The way he han- dled the task of financial recon- struction has been compared by nu-| merous admirers to the administra- tions of Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Tressury, who was confronted with similar grave prob- lems. Heedless of Political Critics His tax reduction program, in- volving a decrease of about 30 per cent in the maximum surcharges on incomes, was assailed as favoring the rich, and his insistence on set- tlement of the war debis by foreign nations was criticised at home and abroad, but he saw most of his plans adopted. By 1926 he had cut the public debt a round $6,000,000- 000 from a total of about $26,000,- 000,000, Mellon was the target for repeated Andrew Mellon was educated in a private school and in the Univer- Officers of the Victoria said offi-| cers of ‘a Soviel gunboat boarded the | |steamer off East Cape, Siberia, to sity of Pittsburgh, class of 1873, 4 ¥ inquire what the steamer was doing leaving college shortly before com- mencement. The next year he en-|there: < 1 téred his father’s banking house| ‘The Victorla’s captain produced and was made a partmer a y‘,ar‘ms permits and the Russians ac- later. When his father retired from|CéPted them: and were very cour- business in 1887, Andrew became |‘®0US: the senior of the firm | The partnership, including his | brother, Richard B. Mellon, enter-| CUSTOMS FLAGS AT uly, , as the Mellon National| FORMER SEC RY Bank. With Andrew Mellon as pres- ident it grew into one of the most| important banks in the country. Collector of Customs James J. He resigned the presidency of the Connors today received instruction institution three days before he en- | from Secretary of Treasury Henry tered the Cabinet, and alsa gave Morgenthay, Jr, to fly flags on all up all his other business connec-icustoms houses in Alaska at half - tions. mast today and until after the fun- In 1889, the brothers and asso- eral of Andrew Mellon, former Sec-, (Continued en Page Three) night. ugh SATISFACTION IS DEMANDED, WAR INCIDENT Wounding ‘of British Am- bassador Must Be Ful- ly Explained APOLOGY, INDEMNITY MUST BE GIVEN NOW Officials in Con ference— Situation Develops Seriousness BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 21. — The British Government, according to authoritative quar- ters, is considering breaking off diplomatic relations with Ja- pan unless full satisfaction is obtained for the wounding of British Ambassador Sir Hugh Montgomery Knatchbell Huge- ssen by a Japanese bombing plane at Shanghai yesterday. Drastic punishment of the air- men involved and full compen- sation to the victim is demand- ed. DEMANDS ARE PRESENTED LONDON, Aug. 27 — Authorita- tive quarters said the British Gov- ernment demands “full satisfaction™ from Japan for wounding the Brit- ish Ambassador. The demands were presented the Japanese 558~ dor in London this afternvon. demand s made by Forelgn Secre tary Eden, Immediately the demand was made known, Shigeru Yoshida, Jap= anese envoy, called at the Foreign Office to tender Japan's regrets. Foreign Secretary Eden and the Envoy were closeted for half an hour and when the latter left the Foreign Office, Secretary Eden plainly showed he was not satisfied with the representations made. U. 8. SERVES NOTICE WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—Secre= tary of State Cordell Hull said the United States Government has served notice on both Jepan and China that it demands proper res- pects to all rights and interests in the Far East. Secretary Hull added that Japan and China are requested to observe rights to the end that they are res- ponsible for damages to this Gov- ernment or citizens as the result of -the hostile operations. Although the Secretary did not directly connect this notice with the reported threat of Japan to block- ade Chinese ports, he said the Am-« erican Consular officers confirmed the announcement that Japan in- tended to enforce the blockade against all nations. LOYALISTS ARE AGAIN WORRYING REBEL SOLDIERS Defenders Pressing Against Zarazoa—Insurgents Rushing Aid HENDAYE, French-Spanish Fron- tier, Aug. 27—Worried by the Span- ish Loyalists' lusty drive near Zar- azoa, as reported from Insurgent sources, the 'Franco troops are speeding a motorized column out from conquered Santander to the Arazon front, The force will be thrown against the Madrid and Val- encia armies in the Northeast sec- tion where Zarazoa is being at- tacked from two directions. Apparently the Spanish Govern= ment forces are attempting to make up for the loss of Santander by wresting Zarazoa from the rebels. Black f Ewope BALTIMORE, Marypland, Aug. 27, ~—Hugo L. Black, new Supreme Court Associate Justice, accompans < Unischooled in practical politics, ciates organizeg the Union Trust|retary of Treasury, who died last led by his wife, sailed today on a va- cation trip to Europe.