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

THE DAILY JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY ShPTLMBER 27 VOL L., NO. 7598 “ALL THF NEWS ALL THE TIME” ‘)37 MEMBER ASbOCIAT X D PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS ‘SCHOOLS CLOSED TO CHECK DISEASEHERE STERN WARNING ( GIVEN JAPANESE BY SOVIET GOVT. “Lawless’ Bombardment Causes Russia to Take Definite Action SITUATION BETWEEN | | i Pro.sulvnt s Son F lancee JAPAN TAKES ~ PRESIDENT IS SEVERE SLAP | THINKING FOR AT AMERICA' FUTURE NATION Shanghai and Other | China Ports i SHANGHALI, Sept. 27.—American business men declare that Japan No llme for “‘Petty” Quarrels Now BOISE, Idaho, Sept. dent Rooseveit, in his tour to Se- Establish Cuslom< House in Has Big Things in Store—| 27—Presi- | has established a customs house in the Shanpghai area in what appears |to be an attempt to throttle Am- erican and other foreign commerce. American importers declared that the customs depots are established for the sole purpose of affording | Japan, after hostilities are over and TWO NATIONS TENSE Troops Reported Bemg Massed—Secret Mili- tary Pact Rumored | | attle, told a large crowd on the Capitol Grounds today that on his current trip, he was thinking more of “bigger things” such as a wider distribution of the control of in- dustry and better agriculture, ther than “petty” quarrels of day. MOSCOW, Sept. 27.—The Soviet | Government has dispatched a sharp | note to Japan with a stern warning | against Nanking. The note is believed to be in res- ponse to the appeal from China for aid against the Japanese in the “un- declared war” attack. The official newspaper of the So- viet Government, the Izvestia, today published without comment, the Chinese note asking Russia to “take measures which would help to end quickly such barbarous and mane acts,” bardment of Nanking. Government, circles did not dis-! close what steps Russia might take to end bombardments and enter the present conflict. Government officials said troops have been massed on the border of Japanese controlled Man- choukuo. The Soviet Government defied Japan to bomb its Embassy in Nan- king in a “determined protest”| which was presented yesterday and ! in which Japan was plainly told that Nation would be held fully res- ponsible. “lawless” ARE CONCENTRATING LONDON, Sept. 27. — Reliable sources report that Japan and Rus- sia are concentrating great bodies of troops along the heavily guarded frontier of Siberia and Manchou- kuo and the situation is declared to be smore serious than at any time since 1932 when the Japanese Army | created the Manchoukuo Empire. According to advices from Tokyo, the newspaper Hochia said a dis- patch from Tiugra, Siberian port, claims the Soviet Army headquar- ters in Vladivostok is seething with anti-Japanese excitement and the populace is being inflamed by pos- ters and speeches. Picked Manchoukuo troops are said to be massing on the opposite inhu- | as the Japanese bom- | no | bombardment of | John Rossevelt, Harvard undergraduate and only unmarried son of the Natien's First Family, is shown with his fiancee, Lindsay Clark, Boston debutante. have not been formulated. EDW, A, FILENE, - SUPPORTER OF NEW DEAL, DIES Lcadlng American M»r- | chant, Economist, Pass- | es Away, Foreign Soil PARIS, Sept. 27.—Edward A. Fil- ene, American merchant and econo- mist, leader in business in the Unit ed States, is dead here, following long illness. SUPPORTING NEW DEAL Edward Albert Filene, Bostorn merchant, noted publicist and in- ternationally known business econo- mist, was often called the apostle of mass production and distribufion. He supported President Roosevelt thoroughly in the New Deal. He preached a gospel of low nm- | duction and high wages, of sou.xl ! justice, of shorter hours, of the sci- | ! | l 42 e entific approach to business pmb-j gagement ended weeks of rumors and denials, but wedding plans Miss The announcement of the en- Anne 1of | ports. FISHING FLEET The President said ipg about planning how to make a better nation for futuré genera- tjor nd better coordination of in- dustrial activities. Senators Pope and Borah were, in the official auto party in the| parade which lasted for more than an hour through Boise streets After the speech and luncheon, a puppet government has been es- tablished, the right to divert Am- erican goods destined for inland distribution, to their own areas. Japanese, the American import- ers say, expect to gain control all waterfront areas and thus collect duty on all American im- I tor trip then to Nampa, region, then to Ontario, Oregon, to board a train for the overnight trip to the }’Jnnm ville pr()j"r S SENT DOWN EDWARD A. FILENE Italy Germany Are Called Two BY SUBMARINE yissing 1L TODK OWN LIFE Japanese Make Attack on Chinese Fleet Off South Coast Rt { HONGKONG, Sept. 27.—Ten sur- vivors declare that 300 men, women and children were killed by a Jap- anese submarine which sank a fleet ™ of Chinese fishing junks off Cree- (long Kau Point, on the South China coast. Several of the junks are said to have been sailing under British registry. The authorities have started an immediate investigation. The ten survivors, all severely wounded, were brought here by the German liner Scharnhorst having been picked up from the flounder- ing vessels. PICKET LINES ARE OPENEDIN Found in Old Building with Bullet in Heart A 22 rifle l)ul]ll through heart, the body of Corrinne Allen Fleming, also known as Connie Al- len, 18-yearsold girl missing since last Thursday from Juneau was found yesterday morning in one of the old wrecked concrete build- ings at Treadwell not far where she was last seen on Friday. The body was found by Mike Reiser and Elmer Savikko while they were delivering on their milk route uhuut 8: 'il) yesterday morning. The re keeping a lookout in view OX N\(’ search officers had in- stituted and decided to look arcund the old buildings in that neighbor- hood. The giri, who had been ve- ported despondent for some time, her he is think-| the President planned another mo-| Caldwell, | Wilder and Parama in Idaho, Nyasa, | from, lems and of community service. He side of the frontier in the hill coun- 1 practiced his precepts as one of \lw‘ try in the North Korean Peninsula. Advices also report that Tok,\o‘ o-owners of the largest specialty | | AL v rs tore in the world, William Filenc Dewspapers foday are devoting col-| gy company, and always tried| Spfln“h Government Dde umns of space to reports of a secret ' to exemplify what he urged vpmw ’le W:’llfls Blufl | military alliance between Russia | A o o | other employers. % and China. 3,000 Benefit Be Called N()W GENEVA, | 21.—Julio Alvarez FRISCO STRIFE Five Thousand Cheer as 60 Pass Through Crowd of 3,000 SAN I"RANCI?CO Cal.,, Sept. 27 —The greatest mass demonstration of labor on the waterfront this year There, 3,000 employees benefited | | {to an unusual degree by the liber- | A. Lincoln Filene, who long before gutr tu wI)( League of Nations, today broke up peacefully after an esti- |ality of Mr. Filene and his brother, Ithe tumn of the century had estab-|demanded that the'League “call the paieq 3000 AFL teamsters opened lished the Filene Cooperative asso- | bluff of Germany and Italy,” & tWO- thop picket lines to permit about ciation, which gave to the firm’s headed monster which wants to de- workers powers grealer in many clare war on all of Europe” apparently had taken her own life, After reviewing the evidence this morning, a coroner’s jury in U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray's court brought in a verdict of suicide. Notes Are Found Several notes were found in her purse which was lying near the body. One was addressed to her husband, David Fleming at Cor- dova, in which she said had “lost” everything she had to live for and asking him to see that her per- sonal effects were sent to her sister, GIVEN SCORING Twenty-three Nations Con- demn Action of Nippon in China Warfare GENEVA, Sept. 27. — Twenty three nations of the League of Na- tion’s Advisory Committee on the Far East, today adopted a resolution condemning the bombardment of Chinese towns by Japanese planes. The resolution will be submitted to the League’s Assembly tomor- row. The resolution was adopted after China’s spokesman, Dr. Wellington Koo urged that the League name Japan as the “wrong doer to the world” and also after the British, French, Swedish and Russian com- mittee members orally condemned the Japanese bombardment of Chin- ese non-combatants. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played in the two major leagues this afternoon as received up to 1:15 o'clock: National League New York 5; Boston 4. American League Boston 6; Philadelphia 2, respects than those of the manage- |ment itself. The idea was called revolutionary | by some competitors but the Filenes regarded it. simply as giving effect to their conceptions of social jus- tice. Filene frequently spoke before im- portant gatherings both in this country and abroad. He heiped to found the Boston Chamber of Com- merce, the United States Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce. He presented his ideas on mass distribution and its effects upon the standard of living to the first{ world social economic congress, held in Amsterdam, Holland, late in Aug- ust, 1931. He preached the gospel of maintaining wages and lowering prices a few days later to a large audience in Leipzig, Germany. He helped to reduce economics and business theory from the more or less aberuse language of the text book to the understanding of the every day man. Always he empha- sized the social side of the mechan- ics of business. Requirements of Life “I am under no déusions about the social efficiency of our indus- trial eivilization,” he once wrote. “The days of the majority of man- kind are still occupied in providing food, clothing and shelter with lit- tle time for lifting life to a higher level. “This is indefensible. The modern business system is at present more (Continued on Page Six) The Spanish delegate told the' League's committee that “ if you want to reduce the problem to per- sonal terms, then get rid of Hitler and Mussolini - ELECTRA STILL DOWN AT WHITEHORSE WITH CLOUDS LOW IN SKY Taking off from Fairbanks yester- day with seven passengers for Ju- neau aboard the PAA Lockheed Electra, Pilots S. E. Robbins and Walter Hall are held over at White- horse by bad flying conditions. The big silver ship was expected in late today, but news came through that the ship could not take off at a late hour this afternoon as there had been no break in the weather on the Whitehorse side. Two passengers, Judge Pratt, and] 2 man named McFarlane went over | the White Pass & Yukon Railroad to catch the Princess Louise. The five passengers weatherbound are Charles Murray, mining man; Fred Ordway, Juneau photographer, and his son Dick; a man named Miller, and Massey, Chesterfield cigarette man. e e WILDES RETURNING Keith G. Wildes and wife, who have been south for several weeks, visiting eastern sections, are home- bound for Juneau aboard the Al- |available throuxh to work cargo at Pier 15 ing, Everett, Wash. as over 5000 persons on the side| Another note to W. A. Huntington, lines cheered. [who procured the rifle which was chance in the crucial jurisidictional wrote, “I only decided on this a dispute over warehousemen. |few hours ago.” —————— — gotten the rifle for her on her in- Portable generating units are now dication that she wanted to go tar- for carrying temporary get shooting, officers said, and only loads in electrical systems. ' (Continued on Page Eight) Quitting U. S Gaovernment After Gaining Prominence Is Subject Worth Probing By PRESTON GROVER side world. The Government will ‘WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. ~—-Thf‘selmiss them and it has been stated sob stories of self-sacrificing Federal jthat the hole left by McGrady in officials who stay on the job while the Labor Department will be per- high-priced positions await them on Llcularly hard to fill the outside will bear lookin gino. It should be written at once that There is no doubt that some are|both Landis and McGrady are the offered better positions; and when | grandest sort of individuals. They they stay on to “work for the Pres- are the kind you would like to have they lose McGrady cannot write in the honest money. But the losses are welljprivacy of their diaries that they from their service for the (Ju\'(lll'lfl tragic sacrmw to their weuarv ment. L James Landis, chairman of the| THE RISE OF MR. McGRADY Securities Exchange Commiss ion,| Several months before McGrady's | and Edward F. McGrady, A.s'shtant}pl‘op()sed departure became public Secretary of Labor, are the latest knowledge he had offers from out- aska. | (Continued on Page Two) test for bacon and eggs in the out- 3 All ships in the harbor are being found by the body, absolving him of | worked and it appeared there is no anything to do with her action. She| Huntington had| ident” through the election punodifor friends for life. But Landis and| lor a session of Congress, balanced by personal benefits gained served the Federal Government at) pair to quit the government to con- side concerns that easily topped his| { ra-| the | use such a | | | A. L. CHIEF ATTREADWELL Bl ol Gougie~ Allen |1 Danlel J. l!nherlv Here is the new National Com- mander of the American Legion, Daniel J. Doherty. He is an at- torney of Woburn, Massachu- set and a former state com- mander. SOCIALISTS T0 SUPPORT LA GUARDIA NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—The So- cialist Party today announced it will have no mayoralty candidate in the New York City race. The state- ment further said the Party will |lend cooperation to the American 1660 CIO longshoremen to pass Florence Allen at 416 Central Build- wlnlhfll party which is pledged to {support Mayor LaGuadia for ‘ election. re- D |Empire Available At Following Places During Health Move Cooperating with health au- thorities, The Empire will have no boys on the streets selling papers this evening nor until such time as the present health regulations are lifted. The Em- pire will be delivered at the homes the same as usual. For those who usually get their papers from sellers, The Em- pire will be available at the fol- lowing places: Butler-Mauro drug store. Gastineau Hotel Hotel Juneau. Hollmann’s Pharmacy. Juneau Drug Company. Race’s Drug store. Smith’s Drug store. S RETURNS WITH BRIDE Bert Elstad returned to Juneau yesterday on the Northwestern with his bride, after a six weeks trip. Mr. Elstad was married in Bel- lingham on September 4 to Carolyn Hiburn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. :J V. Hiburn of Beliingham. The \wedding was a quiet church cere- mony with only immediate relatives wpr(-sonl After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Elstad went to Seattle where they stayed with friends. | | SWEDEN'S CONTRIBUTION to the fight against | paralysis is this small “iron lung” which covers only the patient's chest and is much cheaper than other types. Frederick B, Snite will Wostvm Atr Conforom‘o Is ‘ ' Recommended; Joe Crosson | Is Chosen M (>mber of Board e e e o et et 8 e R e e | | | | respirator, AGTII]N TAKEN IN GAMPAIGN ON PARALYSIS Heallh /\uthoumes Take Precautionary Step as New Case Reported CHILDREN MUST BE KEPT IN OWN HOMES { Youngsters Excluded from All Public Gatherings— Other Business as Usual Launching a program to prevent | further spread of infantile paraly- ,.As in Juneau, Dr. W. W. Council SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 27.— The conference of Naval, Army, commercial and private fliers closed Saturday night with a n'suluhun recommending the formation of al permanent Western Air Conference |of Affairs to be ¢ohducted by a board of thirteen representing Als, aska, Hawail and eleven western states. | Joe Crosson, Juneau and Fair-! Ibanks flier, was named to the board as representing Aldska, | A resolution also adopted urged the creation by Congress of an ade- | quate uvn ur\uys in Alaska. (CHICHAGOF HEAD HAS PRAISE FOR 'KRESTUFF CLAIM Says Find onKrestoff Is lnnrl‘ Will Be Real Mine | The Krestoff Island gold claims Irecently acquired by the Hirst-Chi- | chagof Mining Company shows real | promise of being a good mine, ac-| |cording to Paul M. Sorenson, Man- ager of that company’s operations. Mr. and Mrs. Sorenson flew t Juneau from Chichagof Friday with | Sheldon Simmons in the Lockheed. “The geology of the west coast of Krestoff Island is favorable and the location of the claims and| other physical conditions justifies our belief that a mine will be developed there,” said Sorenson at Ithe Gastineau Hotel this morning. The ore is a high grade quartz that was discovered by Cedric M. Davis early this spring after trac- ing a piece of float picked up the winter previous. To date work has been confined to surface trenching, that has uncovered enough out- croppings to warrant extensive dia- mond drilling. After the showings of the drill sheets have been stud- ied, a shaft will probably be sunk. At present no men are working on the property and plans will be held in abeyance until Mr. Soren- son returns from a month’s trip on the Outside. Cedric Davis, and his partners, Leo Young and John ) Thunes, will retain an interest in|, the ground, Sorenson said. The outlook at the Hirst-Chicha- gof mine at Kimshan Cove is brighter than ever, Sorenson said, with ore reserves augmented by considerable good grade ore de- veloped on the 1250 and 1400-foot levels, and the new electrical hoist- ing and pumping equipment in- stalled a year ago exceeding ex- pectations for efficiency Mr. and Mrs. Sorneson expect to go south on the Yukon to Seat- tle, whence they will journey to their home in Salt Lake City, Utan, for a visit with relatives before going to San Francisco via the Mother Lode mining country, R NICK BEZ ON ALASKA Nick Bez, President of the Perii Strait Packing Company, is a pas- senger aboard the Alaska for Ju- neau. - KILOHS COMING A. Kiloh and wife, who have been visiting in the States for several weeks, are passengers aboard the Alaska for their home in Juneau. | Territorial Commissioner of Health, |today announced the - temporary |closing of all Juneau schools and stated that no children will be al- lowed to leave the city until two wenks of isolation have passed. Schools, including the public, high and grade, and parochial and Gov- ornmcnc institutions, will remain closed until Monday, October 11, providing no further cases develop, Doctor Council said. No children coming into Juneau by boat during the coming two weeks will be allowed to disembark here, it is announced. One New Case The only case which has developed /in Juneau since the recent death of Roy McMath is that of Jackie McClure, three years old, who has been living at Mrs. Lyle Johnson's Home for Children since Septem- (ber 1. He became sick Friday and was taken to the hospital, Sunday, | where paralysis of the lungs has iset in, health authorities. stated. Ten other children are living at bhc Johnson home, and most of ave had “colds” similar to Lhe beglnnlng stages of the McClure boys illness. Jackie, son of Mrs. {Dixie McClure of Juneau, is the {grandson of Mrs. Kelly, who took care of Mr. McMath’s room. Dr. Council today issued this ap- I peal to an parents:” WARNING “Keep children strietly at home. All children, under §cheol age or in school, must be kept off the streets and in their yards or homes. They are not to be allowed to attend the theaters, visit friends, or in any way at- tend a public gathering.” He further stated that all food handlers who have been in contact with the infantile paralysis cases shall be under the two weeks quar- ntine, The Douglas schools are to re- main open, but no children are to be ‘allowed to come to Juneau from Douglas. Children at Treadwell are ito be isolated. Lodges Not Suspended It was decided this afternoon at a meeting of city and school offi- cers that theaters will remain open for adult attendance, and that pub- lic club and lodge gatherings will not be suspended unless the di- sease spreads. The Masons, however, cancelled their meeting tonight and the Eastern Star cancelled a meet~ ing for tomorrow night. Three deaths have occurred from the present condition, that of Mr, McMath, and two in Ketchikan. An- other case occurred in Juneau pre- vious to McMath's illness, when Fred Richards was confined with the disease, from which he has re- covered and did not become para- lyzed. Considerable discussion was held at the meeting this afternoon in order to determine whether thea- ters should be closed and public gatherings prohibited. R. E. Robert- son, school board member, pointed out that if the schools are closed it Is only reasonable to believe that all other public places should be closed also. However, it was decided that since children are the ones tConunued on Page Eight) Iron Lung Being Manufactured by Dr.R. M. Cofley Dr. Robert M. Coffey, with the assistance of several machin- ists, is working on the manufac- ture of an iron lung for use in treatment of infantile paraly- sis, The lung is not yet complete, although a medel of it has been finished and works satisfactor- ily. It is expected that the lung will be perfected in a short time lndlhenlteflwlllbelllde- to its practical worth,