The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1937, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1937. ROOSEVELT IS TOMAKEVISIT T0PAG. COAST Leaves Hyde Park During| Coming Week, Is Announcecent LR | FIRST LADY OF LAND | ALSO ONE OF PARTY| Chief Executive to Also Visit Son-in-Law in Seattle [ WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Presi- dent Roosevelt announces he will leave Hyde Park about the middle of | next week for a trip to the Pacific Northwest. No formal speeches have been arranged on the trip. | The President will inspect several | dams and other projects. Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany the Chief Executive and they will visit their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger, in Seattle. Mr. Boettiger is publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Several weeks ago John Boettiger announced that the President would come to the Pacific *vast sometime this month and espccially visit Se- attle, bdt no confirmation came from the Chief Executive at that time, - e STOCK PRICES TAKE TUMBLE, SHORT SESSION Some Shares Drop from $1 ‘ to $4—No Real Cause i NEW YORK, Sept. 18. — Shares| tumbled from $1 to $4 on the New| York Stock Exchange at the short; session. Buyers were scarce and| chary as the liquidation wave swept | on. There was some lightening of| pressure but some stocks dropped | to a new post-depression low. | Brokers were unable to give any definite cause except maybe it was| on account of President Roose- | velt’s speech, as there was no un-| ually uncheering news. - e * STOCK QUOTATIONS o | | NEW YORK, Sept. 18. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock at today’s short session of the New York Stock Exchange is 10%,| American Can 97%, American Light| and Power 8, Anaconda 43, Bethle- hem Steel 76, Calumet 11%, Com- monwealth and Southern 2%, Cur- tiss Wright 4%, General Motors| 49%, International Harvester 93%,| Kennecott 49%, New York Central 27%, Southern Pacific 31%, United States Steel 90%, Cities Service 2%, Pound $4.96%, Republic Steel 2%, | Pure Oil 16%, Holly Sugar 25, U. S.| Treasury bonds 2%s 982, Atchison | General 4s 110% | STORM RAGES, MEXICO GULF Gale Like Proportions Are| Reported from Some Sections ‘ NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 18.— Storms with winds up to gale force rode today over the Gulf of Mexico, some points about 250 miles south of the Central Louisiana coast re- porting terrific gusts. Small craft are scurrying to cover and large vessels have been warned to exercise caution, & - .- The motion picture theatre at| Craig, closed for several months, has been reopened under the personal management of Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert George, of Craig. V. F. W. Reins Cha fige Handé National Commander-in-Chief Bernard W. Kearney (left) gives a pre- | liminary handshake of congratulation to Scott P Sfluyres, his successor, st the z&h annual encampment of the organization in Buffalo, N. Y. LEGIONNAIRES CONVERGE ON EXTRA SUM FOR METROPOLIS, NWSTRUCTURES | il i$2,906,000 Is Added for | Federal Work in Alaska, ! Washington, Oregon o | 100,000 Already in New York for Largest Con- vention in History NEW YORK, Sept. 188.—Ameri-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — The can Legionnaires aniicipated the United States Treasury Department greatest convention in the history today announced that an additional of the jubilee as they watched the $2,906,000 has been earmarked for vanguard of upwards of a hundred Federal buildings in Washington, thousand veterans converging on Oregon and Alaska. New York by planes, motor cars,} This will bring the total cost of trains and boats. Ithe 1934 to 1940 construction pro- (Legion officials predicted that [gram to $4,464,7715 in the two states more than $50,000 veterans and their and the territory. families will be here by Sunday| New allotments were for projects for the four-day round of festivi- to be paid for out of a $70,000,000 ties beginning Monday. appropriation passed by the last A hundred thousand men plan to Congress. march up Fifth Avenue Tuesday. The new commander to succeed|eral building at Anchorage at a cost of $825,000. The previous al- U.S. EARMARKS Allotments included a new Fed-| 'FDR DEMANDS - ‘REJUVENATED' = ARE ATTACKED, HIGH TRIBUNAL| AIR AND WATER 75,000 Persons Hear Presi-|Plane Drops Six Bombs | dent’s Constitution Ad- | Near Destroyer— dress, Wash. Monument None Effective 'IT’S SOCIAL REFORM | TORPEDO FIRED IN OR DICTATOR, WARNS| DIRECTION, CARRIER Declares Constitution Does|Secret Inquiry Being Made i Not Prevent “Higher —Gen. Franco Makes | Living” for Masses | Charges | WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Pres-| LONDON, Sept. 18.—The British |ident Roosevelt has renewed his| destroyer Fearless radioed London fight for a “rejuvenated” Supreme naval authorities that she has been| |Court with a warning that unless attacked by a bombing plane off social reform is assured the nation | Gijon, Spain. |would be threatened by a dictator-| Six heavy bombs fell close to ship. |the ship but none struck the craft. Commemorating the 150th an-! The plane, after dropping the‘ |niversary of the signing of the Con-!bombs, flew toward Gijon leading to| {stitution, the President urged Amer-|the belief it might have been a| |ica to pledge its “fealty to the Con- Spanish Government attack. {stitution itself and not to its mis-| interpreters.” | | Seventy-five thousand persons who | | | | | ANOTHER ATTACK MALTA, Sept. 18—A secret Na-, |gathered around the Washington val inquiry aboard the British air-! |monument heard the President's craft carrier Glorious led to the |address. belief of Naval officials they are Highlights of his speech follow: |seeking details of a torpedo attack| “The state of world affairs brought on that unit of England’s anti-| |about by dictators threatens our piracy patrol in the Mediterranean. civilization . . . . Fear spreads | It is reported that a torpedo was throughout the world, fear of ag- fired a% tHe Glorious and the tors gression, invasion, revolution, death|pedo narrowly missed the large . ... Modern men and women will vessel. not tamely commit to one man or, Lookouts aboard the destroyer, a group the permanent conduct of Comet warned of the attack. their government. | In our generation the new idea FIRE AT SIGHT has come to dominate thoughts < | LONDON, Sept. 18—It was of- &aboul government. The idea is th”flflcml]y announced by the Admiralty |the resources of the nation should‘mday that both British and French {be made to produce a higher stand-|y; ships have been ordered to fire i""d of living for the masses . . . .lymmediately at submarine, surface You'll find no justification or any yecels or airplanes which attack language of the Constitution for| ;o onant shipping off the Spanish| the delay of reforms which the mass ..t or in the Mediterranean Sea.| of the American people now de- {mand. | ANOTHER CHARGE MADE ! | LONDON, Sept. la,—-lnsurgem‘ Spain has formally accused Russia| lof submarine piracy in the Mediter-“ |ranean, according to a dispatch from (the Insurgent headquarters on the |Inland Sea. Gen. Franco declares {he has irrefutable proof that Rus- |sian subs attacked merchant ship-; | ping, but officials here and also at| Moscow just “laugh” at the charge.: 'GreagiMs | | More than 200 at the Scottish| uf cfl"gressmfln | Rite Temple last night listened to| ! | P R O S MASONIC BODIES HEAR TALK BY H. L. FAULKNER People Must Understand Liberty, Speaker Says at Banquet Friday BRI"SH SH|PS | New Photo of Chncscr)ur‘nmr Chiang Kai-Shek Here is an excellent new photo of executive Yuan and Chinese dictator, taken as he posed for an official state photo at, the national government headquarters in Nanking. President to Make Trip to Pacific Northwest Chiang Kai-Shek, president of the | ‘New Arctic Area Searched For Missing Soviet Fliers; | Believe Operator Is Killed FLOOD WATERS AT SEWARD ARE NOW RECEDING Workmen Clearing Away Debris — R. R. to Build Trestles SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 18. Flood waters are receding, permit- ting workmen to clear the debris| littering the streets of this town.| General Manager Otto F. Ohlson, of the Alaska Railroad, estimates the damage to the rail system at $5,000. Trestles will be built at places where the roadbed has been |Pole, as far as can be ascertained. POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept.| 18. In the belief that the missing six Soviet fliers, on the flight from| Moscow to Fairbanks, might have drifted south and are floating on icefields, a Soviet plane crew hopped | off today on a ten hour search east, off the Arctic coast. The plane has a cruising radius of 2,500 miles. The search party said they be- lieve the radio operator aboard the| missing plane has been killed or else there would be communication with the outside world. There have been so signals from the plane since it was reported nearing or passing over the North The icebreaker Krassin is now coaling at Icy Cap and has been ordered to contine to search for the Russians west of Point Barrow. 1 - B SHELL KILLS FOUR, WOUNDS - FOURTEEN MORE American and Wife Mir- aculously Escape as House Torn Apart ANTI-AIRCRAFT ACTION BLAMED FOR INCIDENT Shanghai Bombardment Brings New Danger to Foreigners in Area SHANGHAI, Sept. 18.—Artillery fire endangered Americans here early this morning and one anti- aircraft shell tore into the home of F. B. Lynch, American advisor to the Chinese finance ministry. As the day-long battle roared into the early morning hours, the shell, presumably Japanese, plunged into the Lynch home, in the heart of the French district. Lynch and his wife miraculously escaped unhurt but four persons were killed and 14 wounded. Today’s anti-aircraft fire is by the Japanese warships endeavoring to drive off the Chinese aerial raid- ers, Japanese artillery, not used to the new bombardment, has marks- men along the road section and the situation is bringing fresh perils to the American defended sector of Shanghai. Shells crashed into the area close by the United States Marine patrol. Japanese said their land forces had repulsed the Chinese counter attacks on a 25-mile front in the north and their military authorities announced a triple-headed thrust deep into central Hopeh province to push the defenders back toward a fortified line which action observ- ers believed would see a decisive battle of the conflict. —_— e s FISH DISPUTE WILL RECENE NOTICE SOON State Department to At- tempt Prompt Adjustment of Alaska Invasion WASHINGTON, £:pt. 18.—A State Department official said today an Harry Colmery of Topeka, Kansas,| will be elected in the final session| Thursday. Representatives of the American Legion and its Auxiliary in Alaska will be in attendance a the conven- tion. |eral building at Ketchikan. lotment includs $458,687 for the Fed- 164 REGISTER AT UNIVERSITY the forceful address o H. L. Faulk- ner, locvl attorney, on the Consti- tution. “No nation can long remain free unless its people as a whole understand liberty and are fit for it,” the speaker stated. “If the Constitution of the United | States had been thought out and - In'Unique Way Paying Expenses of “In- | vestigatinng Trips” Has Two Sides ‘Annesia Victim FOR NEW MARK Regular Enrollment at Fair- banks Expected to Reach 200 FAIRBANKS, Sept. 18—The Uni- Never Alaskan, Hubby Insists: SEATTLE, Sept. 18.—An amnesia | victim held in jail since Tuesday,| formulated by the members of the Constitutional Convention, and they had themselves devised| a form of government for this coun- try, in the very nature of things| it would be out of date now, and, with the changed conditions under which we live today there is no doubt it would need to be changed from beginning to end,” Mr. Faulk- | ner began. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Rail- roads in olden days gave passes w& State Legislators and Cungressmen“ and paid the cost of junkets to points of interest until the thing became somewhat of a national scandal. Laws put an end to that type of railroad good-will building.| But now the colonies, Hawalii| and the Philippines, have found a| (UNCLE SAM'S washed away and this will permit for natural outlets for coming flood | waters. The rain continues but rock and learth slides have apparently halt- ed. BUDGET STILL IS LOP-SIDED WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — The Fedéral Government spent $371,124,- 132 more than its income in the Jailed in Sale 0f Beer, Minors, AfleL Girl Dies |early adjustment will be attempted {in the current dispute between |American and Japanese fishermen operating off the Alaska coast. He said: “We don't want this to be a constant source of friction. A report is now under preparation |by a Department investigator who |spent some time at the fishing banks this past season.” Seattle Bartender, Sopho- more Held After ‘Flam- | The State Department man re- fer to the official party which passed through Juneau early in Au- gust gathering statistics on the ing Youth’ Party SEATTLE, Sept. 18—A bartender was jailed today as a material wit-/ ness and a University of Washing- toni sophomore was held under $5,- 000 bond as a result of a “flaming youth” beer party which ended reported “invasion” of Alaskan wa=- ters by the Japanese. R ITALY QUAKES; Mrs, Ruth Mahoney, 38, was releas- ed to her husband, Daniel, today.| The husband denied statements of | several former Alaskans that she versity of Alaska’s open call for the first semester this week brought a record enrollment of 164 students in the first two days. With reserva- “But the members of the Consti- tutional Convention were not the originators, but the compilers of the vital parts of that instrument. The new wringle of the old game. They ;finance all-expense visits by mem- bers of Congress, entertain them |lavishly and seek to induce in tions and the usual deferred en- principles set forth which provide them g sympathetic understanding first two and a half months of the current fiscal year, the Treas- ury Department reported today. deficit incurred over the corres- with the death of a 17-year-old, high school gir. NO FATALITIES Coroner Otto Middlestadt said This represented a drop in the | pred Olson, 51-year-old bartender.‘ PARMA, Italy, Sept. 18—Many | formerly operated a Juneau beau(yi rollments indications are that the| 3 ins she had never 5::;0 rw }‘:e‘a::;med i }University will have a winter atten- |dance of 200 regular students aside |from the additional list of short! course students in the mining and prospecting classes. Succeeds Too Well BERKELEY, Cal. — It was the| Midwinter accommodations are! all taken and the new women'’s con- for the guarantee of protection of life, liberty and property were ages old at the time the government of this nation was established, and thousands of years ago those things had beeen found to be necessary to the orderly government and well- being of every free and enlightened of island problems. | That view of it may be a trifle |harsh on the islands. Weary mem- \bers of Congress and their wives, {sons and daughters may be entitled |to the relaxations the insular pos- |sessions provide. What better con- was arrested after police learned |buildings were demolished here in ponding period last year when the deficit figure was $439,612,004. under age, before an auto ride. Both income and expenditures| cnarles Evans, 20, driver, was climbed substantially for the period |gteering whert the vahicle over-| this year as compared with a year |, neq, decapitating Patricia Own- |that he served beer to four persons, ago. a severe earthquake in which, how- ever, no known fatalities were re- corded. Hundreds of families evacuated their homes in the fear that other Evans was arrested. D ings. |structures, in which wide cracks | were opened, might collapse. ambition of Timothy Pearson, 13 years old, to make “a real auto”| out of packing crates and the mo- tor from a washing machine. He succeded. Deciding the contrap- crete dormitory will be completed in a few weeks. One hundred and ten of the stu- dents are from Alaska and 54 from 18 states — nine from. California, tion was a “motor propelled vehi- {eight from Washington, five each cle” police took him to court % |fom Montana and Oregon and explain numerous violations of the |4 ree each from Michigan, Wiscon- Shate law, |sin and Indiana, with the remain- " |der scattering. Earrings made of gilded cupids| Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, President have been designed by Schiaparelli,jof the institution, said the outlook French dressmaker. was never brighter. - tribution could the islands make, people. lin that case, than to provide a sea The speaker pointed out thelcryige to soothe senatorial souls? fact that no important law is eVer Or the placid peace of an island devised by any parliament, congress|peach to heal Congressional scars? or legislature nor by any individual . e e or group of individuals no matter ySLANDS FOOT BILL how wise, patriotic or clever. Perhaps the islands have no sec- Basic and fundamental 1aWs ong string motives. It js easily re- which are of universal application | mempered that the railroads insist- wherever a nation is free, have al-|oq they had no motive other than m’r’;“ been the slow growth of cen-|to oblige them when they supplied es. (Continued on Page Eight) | (Continued on Page Three.) Eleanor is Gaing [nto Movies Now HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. 18. — Eleanor Holm &arrett, who danced | a champagne waltz and off the U.| MISS FINZEL WEDS | | Miss Vera Finzel, daughter of Mr.| and Mrs. F. G. Finzel, was recently | married at Ketchikan to Richard | M. Hardcastle, son of Mr. and Mrs.| R. E. Hardcastle. t SEWARD CONSTRUCTION UP —— | More than a quarter of a million British Airmen I(illgd_ in Crash LONDON, Sept. 18.—Three Royal Force men were killed in a crash S. Olympic Games swimming team, |dollars in public and private con-|when a cabin type bombing plane said she has signed to play the role |struction is being spent in and near dived into the sea this morning off of Tarzan's mate in the movies. | Seward this summer. I Conway, North Wales.