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

' THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR VOL L., NO. 7574. - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1937 "FDR Approves LOCALPROJECT NOW MOVES T0 AUTHORIZED LIST War Department Can Pro-| ° ceed if Funds Available, Blanket Appropriation ARMY ENGINEERS PLAN $232,000 EXPENDITURE Both Juneau and Sitka Projects Included in | Rivers, Harbors Bill | WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — The| Rivers and Harbors bill, including two Alaska projects, Sitka harbor and the small boat harbor at Ju- neau, has been signed by President Roosevelt. The Sitka project calls for an expenditure of $160,000 and the Juneau-Douglas small boat har- bor an expenditure of $232,000. In the same bill surveys are au- thorized for Seldovia harbor, Ten-| akee Inlet-Port Frederick waterway, | ‘Wrangell harbor, Craig harbor,| Grantley harbor, Sinuk river, Elfin Cove, Myers Chuck harbor and Unga harbor. | APPROVED BY ARMY The small boat harbor for Juneau included in the rivers and harbors bill is based on the recommenda- tion of Army engineers for'a site just north of the Douglas Island bridge on the Juneau side of the| Channel. Plans, as recommended | by the engineers, call for a basin 12 feet deep and 10 acreas in area which will accommodate approxi- mately 400 boats and provide flo- tation during extreme low tides for vessels drawing as much as eight feet. Provision also is made for an ad- ditional one and one half acres for seaplane ramps and hangars which would make the total area 11% acres. In reporting on the site nm-'.h| of the bridge the engineer’s reportl said: | { | Advantages of Site “This site affords the best nat-| ural protection from the prevailing winter winds and is partially pro- tected from southerly winds by the bridge fill. A basin 12 feet deep and 11% acres in area, protected on the northwest by an L-shaped break- water 1340 feet long and on the south by a 600-foot breakwater ex- tention to the existing bridge fill, could be provided at an estimated cost of $232,000, utilizing rock-mine | waste for the breakwaters. The bot- tom material is reasonably firm, nnd} maintenance costs should be negli- gible. “The proposed improvement should eliminate damages to small boats by commercial steamers due to congestion in the harbor, which averages $2,500 annually; eliminate further damages averaging $3,000 annually caused by the grounding and swamping of small boats an- chored in exposed localities; and permit the servicing and repair of the larger boats of the fleet at a marine railway to be constructed at the proposed basin and obviate the necessity for their transfer to Ketchikan and Seattle for overhaul, with further savings of $10,000 an- nually.” On Approved List Approval of the rivers and har- bors bill with the Juneau small boat item included means that the War Department now places it on its list | of authorized projects for which it (Continued on Page Four) Alaskan Youth Proves to Be Little Hero KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 28.—- The six-year-old son of Lawrence| Atkins, Metlakatla power house op-| erator, saved the life of his father | and baby brother while rowing from a cannery to the power house yes- terday. Atkins, the fatifer, suffered a paralytic stroke. The 6-year-old| boy, instead of jumping from the| boat, which would have capsized it, held his father’s head out of water| until Earl Conkle and Roy Camp- Siberia and brought to a total of on the north Spanish Coast. bell ‘of the patrol boat Vencedor, 138 persons who have been executed ,damage was done. Insurgent planes been married four times before he'an outdoor went to the rescue. - [Vice- Presndent Suggested! |with being one of the most able |divulged here today. |steamers were bombed today by war Wilkins Joins S earch for Flyers Sir Hubert Wilkins, vetemn of Arctic exploration, is pictured with four members of his crew as he departed from New York for the Arctic wastes in a search for the right, Booth. Back row, Jerry Brown, GARNER'S NAME IS PUT FORWARD: FOR PRESIDENGY for 1940 by Texas Demo Leader DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 28. — The | first move in what Texans say may | |be a strong campaign for John: Nance Garner for President in 1940’ came today from Roy Miller, Di-| rector of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in Texas. Miller said in an interview that! Vice-President Garner is the best qualified candidate in the field. Garner was a strong presidential | candidate in 1932 before the con- vention surge to Franklin Delano! Roosevelt. i The quiet Texan has kept pretty | much in - the background since his| induction into the Vice-Presidency. | rw7ever, he is generally credited | Congressional tacticians in Wash- ington. e $2,000 FIRE AT WRANGELL Dormitory for Boys at In- dian Affairs School Is Blazed WRANGELL, Alaska, Aug. 28—| Fire in the Boys' Dormitory of the| Bureau of Indian Vocational Train- ing School Friday caused damage estimated at $2,000. The cause of the fire has not been | wetermined. The dormitory was not occupied as the school is not in session. — e — SOVIETS TAKE 2 LIVES FOR WRECK' ACTS MOSCOW, Aug. 28. — Thirty-two more persons were executed for “wrecking” at the behest of the Japanpese secret service, including the wife of a Polish nobleman who was accused of poisoning water pitchers of exgursion trains, it was The executions were in Eastern in the past two weeks. missing Russian flyers. Left to front row, Wilkins, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon and Raymond ieft, and Russell Hopldns‘ right. In the six years of her life Phy- llis Gene Grommesch of Yaki- ma., Wash., has brcken sixteen bones. And now, as if one isn’t bad enough, she’s broken both legs. FOUR KILLED IN PLANE WRECK ALBANY, N. ¥, Aug. 28—Bodies of four persons were taken from a wrecked airplane after it had crashed a mile from the airport. The plane nosed down on the rain “soaked woodland as the ship bounc- ed back and overturned, shearing yards. BRIT. SHIPS ARE BOMBED LONDON, Aug. 28—Two British planes as they left Gijon, a port are suspected. RUSSIANS STILL ALIVE IS CLAIM, \ RESCUE FLIERS Roger Wilkiams and Co-pilot near Seattle—Wing North Soon BILLINGS, Mont., Aug. 28. Roger Q. Williams, who flew a non- stop flight from New York to Rome in 1929, and his Co-Pilot “Slim” ‘West of New Bendix, N.J,, today in- sisted the Russians are still alive. ‘They refueled their big twin-mo- tored condor and set out for Seat- tle as their next stop on the rescue flight to Skagway enroute to the {Arctic. The pair is expected to ar- rive in Seattle late today and con- tinue as soon as possible to Skag- way, Alaska, where the plane will be equipped with skiis and addition= al fuel Lnnks NOTED AVIATRIX MANGLED WHEN PLANE CRASHES {Mrs. Genevie: Savage Is Killed in Mexiean - Mountains | PRESIDIO, Texas, Aug. 28.—The |Savage, nationally-known speed av- \iatrix, ended today as her plane crashed in the Mexican Mountains, |west of the Rio Grande. {‘ Her body was mangled. She was jenroute to Cleveland where she had |been scheduled to participate in the |Amelia Earhart Trophy face. MELLON'S DEATH { HAS NO EFFECT ONU. S, SUITS WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Offici- als today said that Andrew Mellon's death would not have any effect on the Government’s three million dollar tax suit against the former Secretary of Treasury nor on the |anti-trust suit against the Alum- inum Company of America. They said any judgment the Gov- ernment may win would be appli- cable against Mellon’s estate. FUNERAL HELD TODAY PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 28. A private railroad coach, something he never owned in his life, bore An- |drew W. Mellon back to the city he loved last night. This afternoon public funeral ser- vices were held for the 82-year-old banker's son, who founded a Five Hundred Million dollar fortune, in the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. shifted to a siding and then taken to the church. Burial was in the ivy covered vault beside his broLher. R. B. Mellon. PREACHER KILLS WIFE OVER HER LINDEN, NJ., Aug. 28—Los An- geles farmer-evangelist Lloyd Pusey, 44, stepped out of an automobile here and told a policeman that “I killed her.” Prosecutor Abe David said that Pusey confessed he killed his wife, son's hammer after a quarrel lasting an automobile. wed her last year. daredevil career of Mrs. Genevieve Out at the Paa airnort, is Jimmy Mattern's $90,000 twin - motored Lockheed plane that was primarily groomed for the Mattern-Jones flight from Oakland, over the North Pole to Moscow. with the latest in flying devices and the eight passenger cabin was outfitted with a 1,150 gallon gaso- line tank. Plans were being made for the Polar flight when six Soviet fliers, bound from Moscow tc The missing airmen include Sigismund Levanevisky and Hector I. Lev- Fairbanks, dropped from sight. chenko. They rescued Mattern when he went down at Anadyr on his attempted world flight. tern immediately had his plane fueleg at Oakland and with Jones streaked it to Fairbanks in a nonstop flight, bound for the Arctic to attempt to locate and rescue the Russian fliers, He and Jones made flights Then when his refueling plane cracked up, with a crew of three, who were uninjured, he brought th> crew to Juneau on the big plane pictured above from Here are two views of the plane as it rests at the PAA airport nine miles The top shows the nose of the Pegasus and that's Jimmy in Below is another view as the plane was being in- over the Arctic but found no trace where they can steamer south. out from Juneau on the Glacier highway. the cockpit. Net the bucking broncho “trademark.” MEMBE R AbeU/\Tl D PRh‘}b Maltorn $ ?5)0 000 lew Now in Jum’uo of the missing fljers. wpecled by the airmen snd those attached to the PAA airport. . PRICE TEN CENTS Juneau Small Boat Harbor It was equipped Well, Mat- Roosevelt Is Commg West During Month of Septem her SEATTLE, Aug. 28.—The Seatlle' Post Intelligencer today says mal.J President Roosevelt intends to vml,] in the nearby Alleghany cemetery | ‘Pobt Intelligencer, | the announcement of the Chief Exe- 1Lutlves plans with authority, PREVIOUS LOVES off trees for a distance of fifty| |try trip to obtain first hand infor-' | plishments. who is also a preacher, with a ma- | lall the way across the continent in | the Pacific Northwest late in Sep-| Many of the city’s pramlnentmcn,‘emb" and will inspect the Bonne-! stood reverently as the car was Vville and Coulee dams and then on a tour of the Olympic Pemn- |sula. As the publisher of the Seattle John Boettiger, |is a son-in-law of the President, the newspaper undoubtedly makes LOOKS OK. PARK, N. Y., Aug. 28— Inlarmed sources let n be known that the chances are good for the President to make a trip, but there |is neither denial nor confirmation of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s | report. It is known, however, that the President has planned a cross coun- mation on the New Deal accom- The last word from the President was Friday, a week ago yesterday,| when he told the reporters at a press conference that he did not Constitution addres near the White House. | MAGIC CARPET' - CLAIMS 2 LIVES UPONCOLLAPSE Film Props Capsize in Lat- est Eddie Contor Film HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 28. The “magic carpet” replica using heavy timber props for the filming of the movie version of the Arabian Nights claimed its second vicum to- day, Harry Harshka, 39, property mun, died this morning following the death of Philo Goodfriend last night. The “Magic Carpet” collapsed on the sound stage yesterday. The carpet fell from the rafters while it | was being used in a scene of Eddie Cantor’s picture. Cantor is sched- uled to “ride” the carpet sometime today. e, The term cloudburst first was The dispute was attributed to Pu- have any engagements beyond Sep- ,used in the United States about 1840 bill authorizing two years extension No sey's discovery that his wife had tember 17 when he wouli deliver’ and in India about 1860. It seldom CHICO MARX'S ALASKA BOUND ON YACHT TRIP They and Dr. Francis Grif- fins Go Unnoticed for Time in Seattle SEATTLE, Aug. 28.—The Chico| Marx’s, of the famous Hollywood cutups, flew here today to join friends on a yachting trip to Alaska, The names of the Marx’s and those of Dr. and Mrs. Francis Grif- fin went unnoticed on a local hotel register until it was learned that| Mrs. Griffin Dunn Marx is Chico, of the famous brothers. The Griffins expect to leave on a| “well-earned” trip to Alaska on the| steamer Alaska. - ee——— Prospecting Bill Is Signed by FOR HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 28.—| President Roosevelt has signed the! pmmm allowing prospectors to 16 BOMBERS MAKE ATTACK EARLY TODAY Nantao, Oldest Chiness Quarter in Shanghat, Air Raided \BUILDINGS ARE SET AFIRE ; MANY KILLED Nippon Reported Landing 60,000 Soldiers—March from Coast Towns SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.—The Jap- {anese airmen early today let loose |a deadly sky fife on the winding streets of Nantao, Shanghai’s old- est Chinese quarter and it is esti- mated that more than 600 were killed. Sixteen bombers participated in the air raid. Many of those killed died as a result of being trapped in flaming buildings, set afire by the bombs. Early today a battle was in pro- gress between opposing infantry and artillery at Woosung, about 12 miles northwest of Shanghal. JAPANESE REPORTED COMPLETED LANDINGS NANKING, Aug. 28. — Observers Japan. hos . almost- completed landing of the expeditionary forces estimated at 60,000 soldiers. An advance is expected to start from coastal cities. The Chinese are reported to have mines in large sections to catch the unwary Japanese. NANKOW PASS OCCUPIED PEIPING, Aug. 28. — Japanese Military authorities claim complete occupation of the strategic Nankow Pass, twelve miles away, the lone gate way to inner Mongolia. The Pass was occupled after 16 days of battle in which the Chinese contested every inch, surprised the Japanese commanders at the resis- tance. The Japanese are reported to have lost 1,600 men in the battle. SHELL EXPLODES NEAR U. 8. CRUISER AUGUSTA SHANGHAI, Aug. 28—A Chinese shell exploded early today near the United States Cruiser Augusta send- ing the crew dashing to shelter. No one was injured. The Chinese are believed to have aimed at the Jap- anese position in the Honkchew sec- tion, MARINES ARE BUSY AT FORTIFICATIONS SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.— Uncle Sam's Marines have built new sand- bag fortifications in the American Sector of the International Settle- ment and are prepared for fresh outbreaks. Barricades have been thrown up at street intersections and in front of the chief buildings. Twenty five hundred Americans, including 700 women, are still here, PEACEFUL TRIP, REGUGEES SHANGHAI, Aug. 28—One hun- dred and sixty American refugees made the most peaceful trip down the Whangpoo river today .of any contingent since hostilities started. They reached tne President Lincoln before the Japanese started an- other air bombardment. MARINES FOR CHINA SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28.—The U.S.S. transport Chaumont sails from here Sunday with 1200 Marines for Shanghai, it was announced offici- ally today. The cruiser Marblehead, with 800 |Marines, wil act as convoy. BOMBERS FOR CHINA BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 28. — The United States Shipping Board steamer Wichita sailed from here today bearing beneath the stoutly protected decks a cargo of 19 pow- erful bombing planes and a large tonnage of steel produets, also hun- dreds of large rolls of heavy barbed wire. The steamer is destined for Shanghal. S SRR Miss Esther Watson was admitted is used unless at least six inches of |drill for oil or gas on governmentito the Government Hospital yester- rain fall in an hour, |reserves. day for medical attention.