The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 10, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, 'ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1937. VOL. L, NO. 7584, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS 'COMMUNISTS PREPARED T0 FIGHT JAPAN * LIVES AFTER 6 STORY PLUNGE Ex-potato King Leaps or Falls from L. A. Building LOS ANGELES Cal. Sept. 10.— Abe Kasviner, 40 once known as the Potato King, today plunged six stor- ies and struck a parked automobile, |but lived to tell the tale. Kaeviner leaped or fell from the window of the Wilshire Medical Building. He suffered a broken arm land a bruised back, with possible ! internal injuri PLUNGES FROM "HOTEL WINDOW, INJURES SEL Indian Woman Trapped Between Buildings After able prizes will be awarded for Her 20-foot Topple the following characters: Best | character, negro boy or girl; best | Trapped in a three-foot enclosure character, boy or girl, and best |between the Alaskan Hotel an? wne sustained in deportment in par- |Butler-Mauro Drug Storz after ade, boy or girl. jumping or falling from the second floor window of a hotel room, Mar- The second day and night of the garet Akagi, Indian /yoman, today Southeast Alaska Fair went over was suffering from contusions of big and although the crowd was the left ankle and abrasions of the late, all were pleased with the newleft leg at the Government hospital. SECOND NIGHT OF LOCAL FAIR GOES OVER BIG Visitors Amazed at Exhibits Applaud Splendid Entertainment PROGRAM TONIGHT 8 to 9—Concert Juneau City Band. 9:30 to 10—Floor Show: Don La Vola, slack wire; Dainty Helen Le Claire, acrobat; Milly Dar- lo, musical contortionist. 10 to 11:30—Dancing. | 11:30—Floor Show. SPECIAL SATURDAY | 1 o'clock—Kiddies frolic, comic costumes, awards. o'clock — Bureau of Health pageant. 3 o'clock—Special floor show for kiddies by La Vola, Le Claire and Darlo. 2 SATURDAY PRIZES Children in costume, for the Kiddies Parade tomorrow after- neon will be admitted free. Suit- WARSHIPS T0 STOP PIRACY ON HIGH SEAS Great Britain, France Pres- ent Plan for Guard- ing Shipping GENEVA, Sept. 10—France and Great Britain laid before a Nine- Nation Conference today a dram- atic plan for automatic annihila- tion of any undersea craft lurking in the Mediterranean high sea route. Experts have completed the for- mula which embraces the use of dirigibles, airplanes and warcraft to safeguard merchant shipping. The Italian Government is blam- flying, craft between RTS with a kiss for his R S i ElrsgowpnsnsrhAe gave a farewell gesture to G. Alkanio, leader of the Red zrmy air force, before taking off in a giant four-motored plane across the roof of the world. But disaster overtook the ussian chief. Sigismund Levanevsky, Soviet ace of Jjust the north pele and and Alaska and it was forced down. ed for the piratical attacks on ships in the inland sea. ‘The entire plan will be placed before the League of Nations Coun- cil but both Great Britain and France said the warship patrol is| to be started at once regardless cf Council or Assembly action. Representatives of Italy and Germany were not present at the conference. ART FOR ART'S SAKE AND ALSO - PUERTO RICO 'Kuskokwim Natives Put on Spot—On New Post Office Building | NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—The puz- zling inscription which Rockwell Kent wrote into the mural on the new Post Office Building in Wash- ington was disclosed by the artist Warning 1s uiven Russia’s Foreign Commissar Lit- vinoff warned the Mediterranean Conference that his country “must and will take her own measures” | against. submarine pirates. This is interpreted as a threat that reprisals against Italy will be taken. Litvinoff shouted: *“The Soviet Governmeni can and will not allow make-up in booths, all being artis-| She was extricated by the Juneau Yells for Ext By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, — Com- ‘mercial Washington is crying for la special session of Congress. | Youd think the place had suf- fered enough, what with an eight- month session that left the politic- jal part of the city jumpy and ishell shocked. But 531 Congress- {men with $10,000-a-year incomes make a nice buying public. Take any city in the country and sud- {denly snatch out 531 of its $10,000- Commercial Washington tically arranged, enjoyed the band‘Plre Department about 2 o'clock this concert and floor show and variousimommg after, according to state- departntents and patronized the |ments to Ken Junge, local police- game devices. 1man. calling vainly for help for two The entertainment this year is hours. far above that of the past several! Pire Chief V. W. Mulvihill said a years. The three performers are|ladder was lowered into the space artists in their lines and have made between the l‘:wob:uil;lflnxsdso the big hits. Furthermore, the three Woman cou oisted back are glad to give special acts for me!thr_ough the hotel window through children in the afternoons, to the Which she had plunged. delightful enthusiasm of the younx-‘h'fihz Fh;dcma said 'lthle woman hundreds who have never be- had drop approximately 20 feet seen tight wire performances,|in the fall. She apparently landed contortionists or rope acts. The! oD the beach beneath the structures. performers are giving a special en- | Finally her calls for aid were heard tertainment tomorrow afternoon Ior‘:"d 1‘:"““:"‘:2 -:]“"89 called the fire the kiddies, | departmen er assistance. The three artists are Don | After an examination today, Dr. Vola, performing on the slack wire; Edwar:i F. Vollert 53.“’ her injuries Milly Darlo, musical comoruomst!:e‘l’l‘;d got E;"fl":)s';"fi' flf:: t:flt she and acrobat, and Dainty Helen Le!Y° e able eave the hospital Claire who performs on the rupe,‘;’e‘"‘z’ezzlgfli& ‘i“nfi‘l“ it had been over the heads of the audience.| er left leg had been The three give their acts at 9:30 Proken in the fall. and 11:30 o'clock each night, but| The Fire Department also was as! night. Claire slipped through a crack in the dressing|Xorvinen Tailor Shop, which start- room floor she is so small, and, Manager Ralph Martin had to call| overnight on a work bench. The for the services of Milly Darlo to P€Nch Wwas demolished, according to, squeeze herself through a knot w;g‘lre Chief Mulvihill, but little other carry down the slack wire La Vola|J2n38¢ was done. had to take from his act, to tie, AROUher fire yesterday morning around the lost performer and p""“:ntly iss:i‘:sfl}:“&p:v;:; u‘: BI;{DIX- her back to earth. The perform-! of a Neon ances went on nearly on schedule|S8%: according to the Fire Chief. and received spontaneous and heavy Little damage was done. i e o TAKES SHOT AT MINE TAXATION last evening by the Juneau City Band which gave a splendid con- SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. cert of marches, waltzes, polkas and mazurkas. Tonight's program, which| starts at 8 o'clock, has been espec- ially arranged and Saturday night's program will contain many real car- nival night numbers. anyone to destroy its state’s prop- erty.” today as an appeal to the people | of Puerto Rico to throw off Am- a-year men and you will under- ed after a hot iron had been left| After a secret session, Litvinoff erican rule. told an Associated Press correspon-| These words in the Kuskokwim dent that a “positive agreement will dialect of the natives of western be reached Saturday.” ! Alaska appear in the mural: TS “Puerto Rico minuniera ilaptium= umi ke ha chimeulakut angayora- acut amna kitchimmi attumim chuli wapticum itti leoraatic ut.” | The mural depicts delivery of air mail to Puerto Rico and is translated by Vilhjalmur Stefans- son, the Arctic explorer, to mean: “To the people of Puerto Rico, F A I- L FISH I NG our friends. Go ahead and let us us equals and free.” ‘ While the artist agreed with Largest Number of Plants stefansson on the transiation he ]'n Several Seasons to rcould see no reason to be disturbed change chiefs. That alone can make about it. Pack Next Month | “I wanted that message to | something more important than Seven or eight or possibly 10 can- gossip. I wanted the people of neries are expected to operate for Alaska, having heard the move- the fall fishing in Southeast Alas- ment for independence in Alaska |ka, according to present informa- in full swing, to wish them God- |tion to the Bureau of Fisheries, L. speed in their aspirations. I have |G. Wingard, Alaska Agent, who has not urged armed revolt. (Just returned from a swing through it.” the southeast on stream inspection, reports that indications are that more will operate this year than in several seasons. The fall fishing period has been set from October 1 to 15 and after observing escape- ment conditions, the Agent said he saw no occasion to recommend a change of open season. Ketchikan probably will have four of five plants operating, perhaps jone in Wrangell and at least two in this area. Some others have not yet declared their intentions. R SCTPRE B RS S Registration 0f Unemployed Sm@}e Taken {President Asks John Big- gers, Republican, to Take Charge Far from _ stand how Washington feels about it. Morevoer, gress are not the only public spend- ers who desert Washington im- mediately after the gavel falls. Each House member is allowed $5,000 a year for clerical hire, which means at least two clerks each. Top pay fixed by law at $3900. Senato are allowed $12,000 a year for clerks which must be split among five, with $3,900 to the head clerk. PR Besides that, if a member is chair- man of a committee, he usually is allowed one or more extra clerks. All in all, it runs up to about 1,500 clerks, male and female. And it is no secret that the female clerks are missed most sorely along the shopping front. These little girls do take on a commercial glow when they hit the big city—and Washington shops fatten on it. The uncoiffeured tress- es on Capitol Hill at any given the members of Con-| ra Session of Congress; Good Reasons your finger. There are more waves |there than on the Chesapeake, and they cost more. That leads to something else. Not all the fancy hair waving and dyeing, is confined to the female jcle 1 help. Sitting in the Senate gallery during a session, you could npt count on your fingers the number of stately heads of hair made gorgeous by the deft touch of the waving iron and the dye pot. THEY'RE AWFUL PARTICULAR To a degree the House also dyes and crimps, but being a somewhat younger family, the men there find less need of it. i One beauty operator says that inumber of male customers has in- creased since President Roosevelt pointed a finger of suspicion at the abilities of gentlemen of 70 and up. Gray hair, by that edict, was made less popular, and the beauty shops helped make it less preva- lent. Men customers are persnickity as all get out, says this operator Women take halr dyeing as a mat- ter of course. They don’t fuss about a minor imperfection or a trifling flaw that may or may not give away the dyeing job. But if a spot of dye or a tell-tale blemish shows up ln; the hair of a statesman, it takes on the proportions of an interna- tional incident. Now don’t write in for names of | Congressional dyed-heads. We won't" {give 'em. We value our own bristles | too much. | NEUTRALITY ACT 'BUBABOO LOOMS | o ‘Applica!ion Would Restrict Export of Many U. S. | ommodities i WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Gov- ernment officials said any future application of the Neutrality Act 'might seriously restrict export of such commodities as cotton, wheat, Visitors to the Fair are amazed| at the elaborate displays in the de- partment conducted by the women. The floral display is an eye-opener, as well as other exhibits in the quarter of a block of space under the seating gallery. Saturday, Children’s Day | Countries of the entire world will be represented tomorrow after- noon in an interesting pageant to| be presented by a group of young Juneauites at 3:15 at the South- east Alaska Fair. Bernice Butler will direct the show. A varied program of dancing and singing will be given by the group, Each person will speak in the tongue of the country he portrays and will be dressed in appropriate costume. On the program will be: Jacqua- line Schmitz, America; Mary Lou Tonkin, Germany; Betty Jane Run- dell, Ireland; Ann Lois Davis, Spain; Florence Hawkesworth, Scot- land; Tina Lepetich, Russia; Jac- qualine Schmitz, Alaska; Juanita Diaz, Philippines; Sophie Harris, Hawalii. A group from Douglas will also give an Indian dance. Mrs. Lola Mae Alexander will ac- company the group at the piano. As previously mentioned there will also be a Kiddies Frolic and 10.—Senator William King of Utah assailed mine taxation policies be- fore the Mining Convention here today. Senator King said: “Mining is generally conceded as the nation’s second largest industry. In spite of the fact that it is outranked by ag- riculture, taxes paid by minerals are six times as great as tiidse of agri- cultural products and the Govern- ment has aided agriculture but the contributions to the mining indus- try have been very small.” — .- French Franc Takes Big Drop PARIS, Sept. 10.—A worried Na- tional Treasury saw the franc dive to 2835 to the dollay, the lowest point since it was freed June 30 to seek a “natural level.” Bankers attributed no small part of the money trouble to the dan- gerous state of affairs in the Med- iterranean and higher cost of liv- ing, also drop off in tourist trade. ————— Charles Courtney, master lock- smith of New York City, has trav- eled as far as Bombay and Mos- cow to open “unopenable” safes and (Continued on Page Eight) lr.runlu Anchorage Gets New _Pflst Dffice Two Departments Approve of Building Projects Authorized WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. — The Treasury and Postoffice Depart- ments have announced joint ap- proval of 309 public building projects authorized by the last Congress. HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 10.— scrap iron and automobiles as well ' President Roosevelt has asked John as embargoing shipments of arms |Biggers, of Toledo, Ohio, to take and munitions. charge of unemployment registra- This possibility is under the dis- tion authorized by Congress. Big- cretion of the President. gers has said he will make reply —_———————— next week. 1t is understood preliminary con- cu"e e A“'le"e sideration given by the President includes utilizing local election and postal machinery to make the “ har e country. ! 1] The President may stir interest before registration by a radio ad-, dress, with registration set for a single day, probably some Saturday, The program is to be carried out over a three year period. The approval includes a Post- office and Court building at An- chorage, Alaska, to cost $825,000. Former Alaskan ls Rescued from Surf SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 10. —Two traffic officers rescued Cer- los Mallare, 29, who formerly work- ed in Seattle and Ketchikan, from the surf as he was apparently swimming to shore in the: open sea. . He was taken to & hospital and is threatened with pneumonia. It is not known how he got into the water. after the fall elections. Biggers is President of the Lib- by, Owens, Ford Glass Company, and is a Republican. — e IGRACE MOORE IS IMPROVING SANTA MONICA, Cal, Sept. 10. —Grace Moore, screen star, will leave the hospital here next Mon- day. She recently underwent an abdominal operation. e —- James I of England ruled as James VI of Scotland before his ascension to the English throne. Mass_[uisuning | Carl Holden Implicated in i Six Sicknesses on N. M. Farm i | | } ROSWELL, N.M., Sept. 10.—Carl Holden, 26, former college athlete, is held here under $25,000 bond on charges of attempting to poison Er- nest Langenegger, prominent cot- ton planter and five other mem- bers of the Langenegger family. The members of the family were sickened in an apparent mass poisoning plot. The youth was em- ployed as a farm hand on the Lan- genegger farm. e KRASSIN DUE POINT BARROW {Icebreaker with Two Planes Nearing U. S. Arc- tic Post POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 110.—The Soviet icebreaker Krassin \is expected here today or tomorrow and will land two planes and eight men. The purpose and length of “stuy is not known. Presumably, the iplunes will be used in further search for the lost six Soviet fliers. GranfiArmy Is To Meet With ' Confederates MADISON, Wis., Sept. 10. — — The Grand Army of the Republic, |its ranks thinned by time, dis- persed today after the annual en- ’rcflmpment, to await the call of a reunion with the Confederate et- erans next summer in Gettysburg, Pa. The union of the veterans fol- lowed a long prolonged secret ses- |sion. It was voted to join their |one-time foes on the seventh-fifth anniversary of the celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg providing only the flag of the United States be displayed. BT P The greatest number of tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico, the |Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Jocean recorded for any one year Fresh apples contain as much as'was 21 in 1933. The lightest hurri- 14 per cent sugar, cane year was 1890 with only one.‘ JAPAN'S WAR MACHINE HAS TOUGH TIME Unable to Ma“k‘e Any Ad- vance, Shflnghai Fr(“lls Against Chinese LINES SAME AS WHEN HOSTILITIES STARTED u. S. Marir;;_Endangered from Bursting Shells— Warfare in South SHANGHALI, Sept. 10. — Japan's streamlined war machine struck at the stubborn Chinese defenders on all fronts today, placing Americans and other foreigners in serious dan- ger from the spreading hostilities. The new assault, however, found China’s armies holding virtually the same positions as when the hos- tilities started on August 13. Marines in Danger United States Marines, guarding the northern boundary of the In- ternational Settlement, were en- dangered when a Japanese shell fragment ploughed into the heart of the barricades and shrapnel also sprayed the International Settle- ment causing a number of civilian casualties. High explosives rained down on the Whangpoo, Shanghai's outlet to the Yangtze and one projectile narrowly missed a British destroy- €r. Another projectile whizzed over IONE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN READY T0 “Go” Armed Forces Await Com- mand to Surge Across Yellow River TO REPEL ADVANCE OF NIPPON FORCE Factions Uni_!g in All Parts of China Against Common Enemy PEIPING, Sept. 10.—The power- ful Chinese Communist armies under Gen. Tse Tung are reported prepared to take the field in both the Shensi and Shansi provinces to block the thrust of the Japanese Army in northwest China. Foreign missionaries, evacuating the interior, said long trains of ammunition and light and also heavy artillery and all sorts of war supplies are moving westward from Genyany across the Yellow River to reinforce the Shensi Commun- ists, thei: ten-vear-old difficulties with the Ceneral Government at Nanking, buried in the face of the present crisis. The Communists for a long time have been the bitter foe of the Nanking Government but now all is forgotten and China is united to fight the common enemy, the Japanese, It is reported here that Com- munists are just waiting for the word to cross the Yellow River the French flagship anchored across from Shanghai at Poothung.| Carry Fight South Japan carried the warfare to South China ports with bombard-~ ment of Swatow. Americans there took refuge aboard the gunboat Asheville. It is reported here that the first of 1200 American refugees have lefy Hankow for Canton with pray- ers that the train will not be bombed. — ., AFL MOVES TO OUST BRIDGES FROMGONTROL Green Announces San Fran- cisco Council Instruct- ed to Squelch Him KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 10.— Willlam Green, President of the AFL, sald last night that the San | Francisco Labor Council had been instructed to oust any organization controlled by Harry Bridges. | The action was taken, he said, in conformity with a recent decision cil to purge all state federations and central bodies disloyal to the AFL organizations, NATIONWIDE TIEUP SBAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 10. —A nationwide tieup of docks is foreseen this afternoon by Dave by the Federation’s Executive Coun-| into Shansi Province to bolster the troops there. It is sald there are 100,000 men ready to-move against the Japanese in the northwest, all well armed and well trained. ————————— - G-MAN PROBE OF U. 8. NAZIS IS UNDER WAY Chief Hoover Says Investi- gation Started Six | Weeks Ago PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 10—G. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal |Bureau of Investigation, said today ithe G-Men started an extensive in- vestigation .of Nazi activities six weeks ago under instructions of the | Attorney-General’s office. “We expect to make an extended report, but I can’t say when we will be ready because we are going into this matter very thoroughly” he de- clared, i | STATEMENT FOLLOWS REVELATION BY PAPER G-Man Chief Hoover's statement that his organization is tracking down widespread Nazi activities in the United States followed a copy- right article in the Chicago Daily Times, brought to Empire readers |yesterday in an Associated Press ]dl.sputch, in which three reporters for the newspaper claimed a Nazi Beck, of Seattle, who has arrived to| AT™Y Was preparing to take over direct activities of his Teamsters CONU0l of the United States Gov- Union in the Longshoremen juris- | €rbment. dictional dispute which has halted| The reporters had been sent from cargo moving in the San Prancisco| C08st to Coast and from the Can- Bay area. ,adian border to the Gulf of Mexico “We will call out teamsters on|'© trace the development of Ger- the West Coast if necessary and in|Man-American Fascist organiza- my opinion that will mean the| 008 ‘They worked inside and out- spread of the tieup to the entire Sid¢ the Nazl organizations and East Coast.” |wrote that the organizations clothed Beck said the teamsters and long-|MeMPers in uniforms “strangely shoremen are at loggerheads as to SUBEestive of those worn by Hitler's who will control the warehousemen, |S\'M troops.” They sald the organizations are WPA Program Is Fear WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Higher cost of living may disrupt the WPA program, economists for the Gov- ernment organization declared to- day. | Expressing concern for the setup, |they said possible difficulties in demands for wage increases will cause higher prices and boost cost of supplies to local sponsors of pro- Jects. Several days ago, Government ex- perts said living costs were coming down. Today they ,are going up. “Where are we at?” ik G A A “relatively small but rapidly grow- H gie ing” and that they awaited “Der ngher .hvmg co’t‘ Tag when pians to seize control of May Disrupt the United States” will be culmin- ated. - |SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. JOE KOVAS, 22 Services for Mrs. Joe Kovas, 22, who died at St. Ann’s Hospital Tues- day morning were held yesterday af- ternoon at 2 o'clock from the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Rev. C. E. Rice officiated. Mrs. Kovas is survived by her hus- band, Joe Kovas, and two children, Glenn and Corinne. et i - R The planet Pluto was located years after its presence was predieted by Dr. Percivil Lowell of the Lowell Observatory, Plagstaff, Ariz,