The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937. VOL. L., NO. 75%. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MISSING GIRL S SOUBHT BY AUTHORITIES Fear Felt for Safety of Con- nie Allen Who Disappear- ed Here Yesterday Search was started here today for Tonnie Allen, young Juneau girl, who disappeared strangely last night {rom the streets in Juneau. Any one having any information as to her whereabouts is asked to communi- cate with the Police Department or the Marshal’s office immediately. Fear that she may have taken her own life was expressed today to U. 8. Marshal William T. Mahoney and Police Chief Dan Ralston after it was learned that she had obtained a rifle yesterday and in the last two or three weeks had appeared des- pondent, talking to several of her friends of suicide, the officers re- ported. NORTHLAND T0 CARRY MAIL DURING WINTER First Shipment May Be On North Sea Thursday— Runs Until Apnil The Northland Transportation Company will again handle mail to Southeast Alaska during the win- ter months, star about the first of October to April 30, according to word to Postmaster Albert Wile from A. D. Lawrence, Superinten- dent of Mails, in Seattle. The first mail may go south on the |North Sea next Thursday, which is the last day of September. Post- master Wile has wired for approval for dispatching mail on that vessel. The contract is for all classes of mail, six cents a pound for first, |class and 2% cents for all other. Roosevelt Will Not ‘Coast,’ He Tallfiigcmwd Will Continue Second Term Like First, President Says in Cheyenne CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. 24.| —President Roosevelt told a crowd of thousands today that he is going to continue his second term the way most good for the greatest num- ber.” After being welcomed by a group honey, Democratic foe of the Su- preme Court increase, the President said he told a friend recently who advised him to “coast” from now on, that he couldn't take any such advice. “Don’t let anyone deceive you. The Government of the United States is not going broke,” he said. The President added that he was always keen when he came West I including Senator Joseph C. O'Ma- | LARKIN DIES; STAB WOUNDS PROVE FATAL Warden of Folsom Prison Victim of Riot Stag- ed Last Sunday SACRAMENTO Cal. The sixth blood transfusion fail- ed to prevent death. Charges of murder are to be filed [ — Inmates Attack Prison Warden; Sept. 24— Warden C. A. Larkin, 46, of Folsom Prison, is dead as the result of in- fection from stab wounds received he did the first, trying to do “the|in last Sunday’s riot. immediately against five surviving iconvicLs who staged the riot. FOREIGNERS IN WAR ZONE GET FINALWARNING Told to Stay Clear of Mili- tary Objections of Nippons CHOLERA STRIKES ARMY OF INVADERS Important Base City, North! China, Reported to | Belgian Savants Arrive fo Study Minilg Methods Technique of Alaska Juneau to Be Applied Across Seas Planning to take to Belgium a through understanding of modern mining methods used in the United States, Alaska, and Canada, Pro- fessor Charles A. Demeure of the University of Louvain in Belgium, arrived here last night, accompan- ied by J. A. Gonze, graduate min- No War Hysteria In Japan, Says W. H. Fukuyama Little Talk About Battles, Says Juneauite, Who Visited in Yokohama “There is apsoiutely no war hys- teria in Japan tofay,” said W. H. Fukuyama, owner of the Juneau Laundry, who came to Juneau on the Yukon last night after a three months’ trip to his native land. “I heard very little talk about the war. What I learned mostly was ing engineer of the same college. The two, arriving here aboard the Princess Louise, are making the trip to Alaska in order to study in detail the successful methods used in the Alaska Juneau gold mine which have made it the largest low grade gold mine in the world. Upon return to Belgium, Mr, De- meure, who is professor of mining engineering and industrial econo- mies at the University of Louvain, Be Entered SHANGGHAI, Sept. 24.—Japanese naval authorities have again warn- ed all Americans and other for- eigners, including British, French,! Italians and Germans, in Nanking, to stay clear of the military ob- Jectives which they said Japanese war planes will continue to bomb. The Japanese General Staff has decided that a bombardment of American Legion Conven- tion Adopts Resolution to Government 22 or 23, officers said, had been liv- rifle, indicating that she wanted to| REFEREND“M Bergstrom home. A short time later | P walk near the Goldstein fur store The Bergstroms became alarmed Tennessee drys acclaimed a 2 to 1 The girl is described as blonde,| They now plan an attack on legal- ing a brown coat with fur collar, |“meaningless farce.” | jmove shortly for repeal of the sta- the Yukon, Marshal Mahoney has|anti-whiskey laws survive. had any money, but officers said, | | COUNCIL geTs | Bay s Demanded Today to Outline General |1ne american Legion, Department Preliminary meeting of the Alas= mediate action of the United States zleman to: outline steps to be taken Another refolution urges larger velopment plan which is expected to] as he wanted to get more people from the Eest to come and see with their own eyés. The Eastern people are the ones who have denied reclamation in- vestments as a waste of money, the Chief Executive said. President Roosevelt reached here shortly after 9 o’clock this morning and was welcomed by an official committee including Senator O’Ma- honey. . Teamsters Plan Mass Picket of S. F._!aterfmm AFL-CIO Dispute Coming to Head with Ware- house Tieup SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 24. —Mass picketing of the water front is planned by AFL teamsters- union officials to force a showdown in the Jurisdictional fight, Meeting with a group assembly, they made speeches against the CIO longshoremen. Spokesmen for the teamsters planned to throw up strong picket lines consisting of four thousand members to tie up the waterfront. One teamster said, “If you want to know why we're fighting, it's because the CIO is led by Commun- ists.” FRANCHISE OF MISSIONS TO will apply the new methods to his courses at the University. He states that adoption of such new mining technique is also probable | for mines of the Belgian Congo. Low Grade Deposits Speaking in slightly accented English, Prof. Demeure stated his SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 24. belief that gold mining in low grade —Warden John Johnson of Alcatrag, dePosits will become more and more who was assaulted by convicts, has 8dopted. It is as a result of this| been taken to the hospital, prison conviction that he plans to Spend officials reported. the coming few days in studying The attack occurred while War-~ the Alaska Juneau mine. den Johnson was interviewing' Before coming to Juneau, Prof.| prisoners, about 100 inmates who Demeure and Mr. Gonze attended staged a strike before the assault. |# Joint convention of the American Prison Physician George Hess sajd #d Canadian Institutes of Mining the warden apparently was not se- 4nd Metalurgical Engineers, held in riously injured. The prisoners had Vancouver. They wm_lenve for the| {refused to work and had locked their South aboard the Princess Louise |cells. /Sunday and plin to study mining - | Refug to Work Alcatraz Official Assaulted While Interviewing Convicts | | Nanking will be the quickest way' to end hostilities. The worst cholera in Shanghai's history is reported to have struck the Japanese army advancing what I read in the newspapers. There were no bands playing, no soldiers marching off to war—none of the excitement which usually marks a battle-torn nation. There is no hatred or animosity toward the Chinese living in Japan. They are not being asked to leave the country and are living very peacefully in various Japanese towns."” This journey marked Fukuyama's second trip back to Japan since he left it in 1906. This trip differed from ‘the other, however, in that Fukuyama brought his wife and four children, Mary, Ethel, Walter and against the Chinese defense lines northwest of this city. Two hun- Tommy back with him for the first dred soldiers are reported to have time. died already from the disease. “How do I think the war will come bty g g Iout"’f Fukuyama asked. “I do not 'say. I do not go to Shanghai, the BERATEGEO BABE AN DAHG heart of the war, and—I do not ask PEIPING, Sept. 24—The Japan- guestions. ese Army is reported here to have «rhe country is so much bigger, completely surrounded the strategic there are more industries, more Chinese base at Paotingfu, 80 miles yisitors, 1 hardly recognized my south of here and an ultimatum home town of Wokahoma,” Fuku- has been issued to the Chinese army yama said. “The country has been to surrender or be annihiliated. = |repuilt sinc the earthquake of In the midafternoon, the- Japan- 1923 It is more modern than ever. ese announced the Chinese defend- 1 gimost got lost in Tokyo. I'm ers had been driven from the north, not used to cities like that.” south and west gates in fierce hand- An enjoyable feature of his trip, to-hand fighting. The Japanese are pykuyama said, was a short visit sald to have taken over the three t; Hawail. The land impressed him | — methods in California Colorado, South Dakota, Ontario and Quebec T I before returning to HBelgium in No- oledo School Boy == | Shoots Principal |Street,” he stated, emphasizing the fact that a break in metal prices is » usually the first symptom of a cyc-| 3 lical crisis. “The present drop in Ascribed to Robert metal price is a serious indication. In addition to this, the industrial Sflyder, 12 |slump has been observed to reoc-, lcur after a period of seven or eight TOLEDO, Ohio, Sept. 24—Toledo years, which brings up to 1937 after Ppolice ascribed “gangster hallucina- 3929 » |tions” in the shooting of June prof. Demeure, from a thorough Mapes, 59-year-old school principal study of past crises, believes that by Robert Snyder, 12, who fled from the status of copper is a forecaster school and attempted suicide after jn the general industrial field, and the woman fell wounded in her of- 5, is concerned with the present fice. | copper slump. Police also said that they were in-| puring their stay in Juneau, Prof. formed the boy nursed a grievance pemeure and Mr. Gonze are stop- against the principal because she ping at the Gastineau Hotel. They slapped his face a year ago when gpent today at the Alaska Juneau he made errors in mathematics mine problems. | Economi¢ Trend In addition to his Interests in mining, Mr. Demeure, as Frcfessor\ of industrial economics, is at this the economic industrial trend. | | “I fear a nmew slump in Wall ** Gangster Hallucinations’ ——————— — gates commanding entry to the city greatly with its beauty. and just 14 minutes later began «would you like to return to Ja- pushing in through the first break pan?” Fukuyama was asked. in the walls of the city. “Yes,” he smiled. “Someday. Reinforcements But I like Alaska. I like Juneau. The Japanese are bringing up rhig g my home. I like to see Japan time pasticularly concerned with tanks and heavy artillery to support anq visit my relatives, but T want | the infantry attacks. . Ito stay here.” Paotingfu is the capital of Hopeh Province and if the Japanese have “American Gene” been successful in capturing the “My first trip to Japan was a city it likely means, according to distinct revelation,” said Mary Fu- observers, that Chinese resistance in kuyama, oldest of the four children North China has been broken and who went to Yokahama. “Although probably means the signal for con- my relatives called me an ‘American trol by the Japanese of the whole gene,’ I felt a strong affinity toward region. The ¢ity's population is them.” about 100,000. Japanese children are much more - eee serious minded than young Ameri- | cans, Mary found. Most of them, as |soon as they finish high school, go Ito work to earn money for their col- lege educations. They don’t play as much as our American children do. “It seemed strange to eat many Japanese foods,” Mary said. “They |were very different from our o Rice was served to us at almost |every meal, but I got used to the strange menus before the summer was over.” WESTERN AIR LEADERS MULL OVER OUTLOOK e | The girl, who is between 17 and 18 years of age, and could pass for| [} ing at the Carl Bergstrom home. Yesterday, while downtown, she hired a cab and asked the driver, W. A. Huntington, to get her a .22 €o target shooting. He obtained the small rifle and delivered her at the| she is said to have left her living| Plan Attack on Lega]lled; quarters and again gone downtown. Rt 1 She was reported seen on the side- Beer Wl“ MOVC Shortly for Repeal around 5 o'clock, but no trace has been found since. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 24. — when she failed to show up at her |victory yesterday in a prohibition lodgings and notified authorities. |referendum. weight about 155 pounds, height, ized beer, while the wets insisted five feet, six inches. She was wear-!advisory balloting yesterday was a giving a cape effect, when last seen,| The prohibitionists said they will officers said. In thé possibility that she may tus permitting 5 percent beer. have gone out on the Northland or| The state is one of five whose notified points where those vessels — .- call. She is not believed to have . she might have slipped aboard. | P rute c tl un f“ r RO 7 e { . . . | Fighing, Bristol | i Preliminary Meeting H b g Cld ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 24.— | Development Program tof Alaska, in the concluding session here, passed a resolution urging im- ka Planning Council was called this|t¢ Protect the Bristol Bay fishing afternoon by Chairman B. F. Heint-|{fom foreign invasion. in drawing u e Al . |appropriation for the Bureau of In- 0 Fhotitars) Aats e |dian Affairs for care of destitute be the basis of the program Presi- dent Roosevelt has been asked to submit to Congress when it meets| in January. General lineup of organization and work to be undertaken was to b_e taken up at this afternoon’s ses- sion which was attended by only the members who are in the city. Members of the Council are Gov. John W. Troy Chairman Heintzle- man B. D. Stewart Frank Dufresne, Ike P. Taylor, Edward W. Griffin, all of Juneau; John A.. Talbot of Ketchikan, M. J. Walsh of Nome, Arthur A. Shonbeck of Anchorage and Luther C. Hess of Fairbanks. CANADIAN POLICE SERGEANT MAKES INSPECTION TRIP Sergeant J. H. McClinton, who boarded the Princess Louise at Prince Rupert, is enroute to Tele- graph Creek where he is to inspect the police detachment. Sergeant McClinton has jurisdic- tion from Cape Caution to the Yu- kon boundary and makes the in- spection once a year. KEYSER RETURNS FROM TRIP SOUTH John J. Keéyser returned to Juneau aboard the Yukon, following a five- week vacation trip to the States. Mr Keyser spent his vacation at his family home in Spokane, Wash. He is with the.Juneau Weather Bu- reau. Indian children. $50 Bonus for Seamen of U, S. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24— The Maritime Commission approved a $50 bonus for seamen of the govern- ment-operated merchant vessels which enter danger zones in Chin- ese and Japanese waters. The Martitime Union leaders suggested $250. PULLENS ON VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Pullen, well known Juneau residents now on a tour of the States, were in Boston on September 8 enroute to Portland, Me., Mr. Pullen’s old home, accord- ing to word received by friends in Juneau, BE SWITCHED SAN FRANCISCQ, Cal, Sept. 24.| —Joe Bearwald, President of the Pacific Coast League Mission Reds, announced that the club’s franchise | will be transferred to Hollywood for next season. The transfer is still subject to the approval of the Directors of other clubs. The Missions moved here from the Vernon Club in Los Angeles ten | years ago. BARR IN KETCHIKAN ON RETURN FLIGHT FROM PR. RUPERT Pilot F. F. Larr, returning from his hop to Prince Rupert yesterday afternoon, brought his Alaska Air| Transport Bellanca down in Ketchi- kan this morning at 11 o’clock. It was doubtful this afternoon if the weather would permit Barr to| make the retturn flight to Juneau| today. Should he be forced to re- main in the First City overnight, he is expected to fly here early tomor- row morning. MISS ARNOLD SAILS ABOARD NORTHLAND ———.———— PILOT VISITS HERE Harold Davenport, pilot for the White Pass and Yukon Route, passed through Juneau enroute north last night, following a vaca- tion in Vancouver. ——— HOLBROOK RETURNS Assistant Regional Forester Well- man Holbrook returned to Juneau on the Yukon after a Forest Ser- vice Service field trip to Ketchikan|south aboard the Northland. She is in connection with work in that di-|returning to her home in Albany, vision. Oregon. been associated in the office of the Columbia Lumber Company for the Miss Lurline Arnold, who has| The boy is in a serious condition with a bullet wound in his head. ‘The principal, who was wounded in the groin, said “I feel sorry for the boy and his parents. I would rather nothing more be said about it —_—— NEW JOB FOR JIM FARLEY of Pierce Arrow Organization NEW YORK, Sept. 24. — James A, Farley’s resignation as Post- master-General and his acceptance of the presidency of the Pierce- Arrow Company is understood by informed circles to have been de- layed by the current decline of the securities during preparation of SEC registration statements for the new issue of Plerce Arrow stock. After considering numerous oth- er offers of executive positions, Far- ley agreed several weeks ago to be- come the head of the reorganized company. Th new issue of stock was used principally to place a low- tition with cheaper priced Packards and Cadiflacs. The salary is be- :{lieved to be above $50,000 a year. IS HELD UP Postmaster toBecome Head' Nation’s Aviation Experts Convene to Diagnose Industry . SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 24— | Herh Hoover Is | Nu' tu " Leaders of the nation’s aviation in- : , dustry gave differing diagnoses of resl e“cy the ailments, hop, prospects and problems yesterday as the Western Aviation Planning conference NEW YORK, Sept. 24—Lawrence|opened. Richey, secretary to Herbert Hoov-| Cyril C. Thompson, executive of |,er, said Hoover will not be a can-|the United Airlines, pleaded for pas- |didate for the Presidency in 1940. |sage of Federal legislation including | principles of the McCarran Act to 9, give the Interstate Commerce Com- M CAFFERTYS Now mission regulatory powers over air lN SANT A BARBARA transportation. | Brig. Gen. H. 8. Arnold, assistant Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCafferty, [air corps chief, revealed that the |for many years residents of Juneau,|Army high command had prepared are now located at Santa Barbara, to take over municipal airports and calif., according to word to friends|defense areas as bases for operation here and expect to remain there for|in time of emergency. |some time. Mr. McCafferty was un- til recently a member of the City Council and for many years was| WARD JOINS FOREST active in business here. SERVICE FISCAL ALASKA STEAMSHIP OFFICIAL ARRIVES . Ray Ward, who has been in the W. E. Brown, assistant traffic[Forest Service office in Lincoln, manager for the Alaska Steamship|Neb., arrived in Juneau with Mrs. Company, arrived in Juneau last|Ward and one child aboard the Yu- night on the steamship Yukon for|kon. Mr. Ward has been detailed a stay in the Capital City until the|temporarily to the Regional office steamship Northwestern sails north.|here and will be assigned to assist Mr. Brown arrived here from Ket-|the Regional Fiscal Agent, Regional past few months, sailed for the|priced car.on the market in compe-|chikan. He conterred with Alaska Forester B. F. Heintzleman an- Steamship Company employees to-(nounced. After a week here, he day. He is stopping at the Gas- tineau. the Forest office there. ‘While in Japan, Mary picked up enough of the native tongue to be able to speak with her friends. “The stores, the cities—all are different from those in the United Btates,” Mary continued. “There are not so many cars in Japan as in the United States, and the stores seem much more disorganized.” Japan charmed the Pukuyama children with its quaintness, and beauty, and they all are eager to “hurry back and see more of the country.” MRS. F. W. BRADLEY TO BE HONOR GUEST ON NEXT TUESDAY In honor of Mrs. Frederick Wor- then Bradley, an at home is to be given Tuesday afternoon from 3 until 5 o'clock at which Mrs. L. H. Metzgar and Mrs. John Hellenthal are to be hostesses. Mrs. Bradley, daughter -in -law of the former president of the Al- aska Juneau mine is to arrive with her husband aboard the North- OFFICE sTAFFlwescem. A. E. KARNES DUE BACK FROM TRIP A. E. Karnes, Territorial Com- missioner of Education, is expected to return to Juneau aboard the Yu- kon when it makes its return voyage southbound. Mr, Karnes has been to the west- visiting schools of the Territory. ® ASIATIC FLEET TO REMAIN, CHINA PORTS FORMAL NOTICE SERVED BY U, S. NAVY DEPT. Announcement FIssued with Full Authority of Chief of High Board NATIONALS WILL BE GIVEN PROTECTION State Department Also Puts Official O. K. On Govt. Position WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — The United States Navy served formal notice today that the Asiatic Fleet will remain in ®binese waters “as long as the present controversy be- tween China and Japan exists.” The statement was issued by the Navy Department as a formal an- nouncement by Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander of the Asiatic Squadron and made public after a meeting of the Navy General Board, the highest policy making body of the Navy Department. The announcement is probably made with the full support of the State Department. The announcement further said the Navy's policy is to maintain warships in ports where needed to protect American Nationals and “will continue in full force even af- ter our nationals have been warned to leave China after opportunity to leave has been given.” U. S, WILL NOT RECOGNIZE NEW NIPPON CLAIMS Tnformation Stresed by In- formed Observers Here | | I | WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. — The {United States will not recognize any \new Japanese territofial claims in |China, whatever the outcome of the |Sino-Japanese war, if this country ,adheres to established foreign pol- icies. This was stressed by informed observers who recalled that the gov- ernment but withheld formal rec- ognition of both the Japanese-dom- inated state of Manchoukuo and the Italian-annexed Ethioplo because they were acquired by force. IL DUCE, HTLER T0 MAKE JOINT PEACE APPEAL {Mussolini Enroute to Ger- many for Highly Im- portant Meeting IL DUCE ROME, Sept. 24—Amid gigantic military demonstrations, Premier Benito Mussolini left for Germany today to visit Europe’s other power- ful Fascist leader, Adolf Hitler, 11 Duce drove to the station in a closed car through streets packed with thousands of Romans, held behind tight lines by militiamen. The train departed an hour ear- lier to insure clear and rapid pas- sage to the Austrian border. FOR PEACE APPEAL MUNICH, Sept. 24. — Informed sources disclosed that Mussolini and Hitler agreed to make a joint world appeal for peace when they speak Tuesday at the close of a huge dem- onstration in Berlin. Mussolini is enroute to Munich on a special train for what is re- garded highly as an important meeting with Germany's dictator. Italians who are in a position to know said that Il Duce’s speech and Hitler’s constitute a mutual message for peace, which might form a basis of lasting understanding in Europe. - e ——— En route to Nome where he will fly for Hans Mirow, air line oper- ator, J. T. Jefford, former Okla- homa pilot, arrived in Juneau on the will go to Ketchikan for a month in|ward and interior on a gemeral trip Yukon and expects to hop for the Interior on the next PAA flight.