The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1937. PRICE TEN CENTS . VOL. L., NO. 7600. JAPANESE FLAGSHIP NEARLY BLOWN UP NEW JUDGES T0 BE NAMED, SAYS HUGHES Recommendations Made at| Annual Court Conference ROOSEVELT PLAN | IS GIVEN SUPPORT Bar Association, However, Against Any ‘Remake’ of Highest Court WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.——Stalis-r tics compiled by Attorney General Cummings has been used as ammu- nition by Chief Justice Charles | Evans Hughes, of the Supreme’ Court of the United States ,n a report generally regarded as an at- tack on President Roosevelt’s Court proposal. Justice Hughes disclosed at the actual conference of the Senior Court Judges that he had recom- mended the appointment of four more Circuit Court Judges and 12 District Judges, to relieve conges- tion in certain areas. Justice Hughes said however, that| the tabulation of Attorney General Cummings submitted “indicated im-‘ portant progress had been made” in expediting the work in the Federal| District Courts. 1 A new District Judge is proposed for Western Washington. CUMMINGS’ COMEBACK { WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. — At- torney General Cummings said the Judicial conference report recom- mending the appointment of new Federal Judges is a ‘“complete cap- itulation” to President Roosevelt's Shake On “World Peace?” Mussolini conferred with German “tips” to the world for “peace” but KKK : Has Ofie But Never BLACK WONT Court program. “The major matter I stressed, and which the conference has appruved,1 was the necessity of speeding up{ process in our courts and providing | r additional judges, this purpose| being to relieve congestion,” the AL-‘ torney General further said AGAINST COURT PROGRAM KANSAS CITY, Sept. 29.—With- out debate, the American Bar As- sociation set up a special seven munl committee to carry on the battle | against a “remake” of the Supreme Court of the United States. A report of a special .committee warned the Association that new ef- forts will probably be made to change the Court. A record breaking attendance characterized the meeting. ———,— Dolores Costello Returns to Films, HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. 29. — Dolores Costello, former wife of John Barrymore, is returning to films. She has signed a term con- tract with Warner Brothers, the company that starred her several years ago before she retired from the screen to be Mrs Barrymore. e Monument for Sax DINANT, Belgium—This placid little village on the banks of the river Meuse plans to raise a monu- ment to Antoine Joseph, inventor of the saxophone. Joseph, who was known as Antoine Sax, was born here November 9, 1814, and died in Paris February 4, 1894, before the popularity of his instrument was assured. MARINE AIRWAYS TO WAIT FOR MAIL BAGS The regular Sitka-Chichagof trip TALK KLAN ON FIRSTDAYHOME in Europe—May Make Statement Later NORFOLK, Va. Sept. 29.— For- mer Senator Hugo L. Black arrived today from a trip abroad, appar- ently planning to begin immedi- ately his duties as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He maintained the silence he re- fused to break in Europe in regard to the charges that he once re- ceived a life membership in the Ku Klux Klan. Black made two things clear, one that he is going to Washington im- mediately, and the other that he might make some statement, ‘pos- sibly over the radio, about the Klan issue. Hint of Feeling ‘The only hint of the deep feelingI Black gave to the report that he was| once a member of the KKK came when reporters offered him copies of the newspaper Post-Gazette of Pittsburgh containing a series of articles declaring him to be a member of the Klan. After a moment of hesitation, Black said sharply: “You take that back to Mr. Block.” Block is publisher of the news- paper. Continuing, Justice Black said: “If I make a statement, I will make it public so the people can hear and understand what I say because some portion of the press might decide that it is not public, what I say.” IS ON SALARY WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. — Al- though Hugo L. Black, returning from Europe today, has not yet performed any official duty as Su-| preme Court Associate Justice, he will receive $2,333 court pay by mid- night tomorrow. His salary started Friendly Fascists strengthened ties which bind when Iltaly’s Benito y's Adolf Hitler. Both gave their they had personal strings attached. n Been Down Been Quite Out [ e Here is a condensed history of the Ku Kilux Klan. Facts are from various books on the Kilan, principally- ene-.by Professor John Moffatt Mecklin of Dart- mouth college, published in 1924 | by Harcourt, Brace & Co. In- formation on the present Klan situation was obtained at na- tional headquarters of the Klan in Atlanta, ‘Maintains Silence, Same as |BY THE AP FEATURE SERVICE | | On December 24, 1865, six men of the disbanded Confederate Army |met in the law office of Judge | Thomas M. Jjones in a small brick building at Pulaski, Tenn. | | One of the six, Captain John C.| Lester, proposed a club to dispel| gloom over the defeat of the South.| (It was proposed that the name| should be “Kuklos,” Greek for band jor circle. Someone suggested Ku} |Klux, and Lester said: “Let’s add {Klan to this — we're all Scotch- |Irish.” That name was adopted. Even Horses Wear Sheets i That night the Klansmen dis- {guised in sheets, their horses also covered with sheets, rode through town frightening negroes. Members !saw in this organization a weapon against negroes and against carpet- baggers from the North. A year later in a ruined house outside Pulaski the Klan really was| born, in its first important con- clave. A delegation was sent to General Robert E. Lee in Virginia but while he is supposed to have given the Klan his blessing, he refused to join. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Southern cavalry hero, became ‘Grand Wizard” in convention at Nashville, May, 1867, and Klansmen 1in full regalia paraded in Athens, Ala., and Pulaski. | Acts of Violence Start | Acts of violence in the South by !men in Klan regalia followed. Pub-| lic sentiment was aroused against Klan. Tennessee Legislature passed an anti-KKK statute in 1868. Trials| of Klan members held in Alabama and South Carolina ended in non- convictions. i But lawlessness attributed to Klan {was a factor in its decline, begin- Ining in 1869. The Congressional |investigation of 1871-72 also hit it of the Marine Alrways has been|on August 19 when he took his oath |hard. By 1873, KKK was a “syn- postponed until tomorrow morning to wait for the mail from the Al- aska, due tonight at 5:30 from the south, according to Alex Holden. - © e 00000000 WHERE YOU CAN GET . . YOUR EMPIRE . of office. — e FOUR HALIBUTERS SELL AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, Sept. 29. — The Thor came in from the western banks lonym for the most sinister and dangerous forces in American life” |(outside the South), according to Prof. John Moffatt Macklin of |Dartmouth. Then for almost half |a century KKK was in eclipse. Revived in 1915 In 1915 William Joseph Simmons Alstrom’s News Stand. Butler-Mauro Drug Store. Gastineau Hotel. Hayes Shop. Hotel Juneau. Hollmann’s Pharmacy. Juneau Drug Company. Race’s Drug Store. Smith’s Drug Store. e 0 00000000 ®|with 39,000 pounds of halibut and | (tall, thin-lipped, spectacled) had ®|sold today for 11% and 9 cents a|dreamed of a new Klan to take in ® | pound. The Trinity brought in 40,000 all sections on credo of “basic Amer- ¢ |pounds, selling for 12%, and 9 icanism.” ®|cents; Tordenskjold 39,000 pounds,i On October 16, 1915 he and 34 ®|selling for 12'% and 9% cents; Sea- associates signed a petition for a | bird 28,000 pounds, disposing of the charter. Petition was granted. @ catch for 10% and 9 cents. | ©On Thanksgiving night, 1915, Klan o T PR |gathered under a blazing torch on ®| The stings of bees, if sufficiently Stone Mountain near Atlanta, Ga., o |numerous, often are fatal, (Continued on Page Two) WHITE HOUSE, SEATTLE AREA Chief Executive and First Lady of Land Greeted by Thousands ROOSEVELT RESTING ONE COMPLETE DAY Goes to Victoria Tomorrow Aboard Destroyer for Luncheon Engagement BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Sept. 29.—President Roosevelt displays keen interest in the proposed Alaska extension of the Pacific Highway, Representative Mag- nuson said, after talking with the Chief Executive on the train enroute here. The Presi- dent, according to Magnuson, said that if possible, he will dise! the Alaska highway with Provincial leaders in Vic- toria tomorrow. | SEATTLE, Sept. 29. — President Franklin D. Roosevelt today relaxed in this Northwest metropolis after 19 speeches and rear platform talks on his transcontinental tour which brought a recapitulation of the gen- — |eral aims of his Administration. A roaring welcome greeted the | President at the end of his west- |ern journey. Throng of Greeters It is estimated that 100,000 per- sons thronged the Seattle streets last night to welcome the Chief Ex- ecutive and Mrs. Roosevelt. The party arrived at 9:30 o'clock last night and the distinguished guests motored through the street jammed |with milling, cheering greeters. Secret Service men were stationed at all points and then took up their istations at the home of the Presi- dent’s son-in-law and daughter, Mr, land Mrs. John Boettiger. Seattle White House Today the White House, where the President is taking a complete rest, is the two story, fifteen room white frame house overlooking El- |liott Bay in the wooded section near Fort Lawton. This White House is similar to the one at Hyde Park. Going to Victoria ‘Tomorrow the President will visit Victoria, B. C., going there aboard a United States destroyer. Following a luncheon with leading Canadian officials, the President will then go to Port Angeles and make a tour around the Olympic Peninsula. FLEET CHANGES ARE ANNOUNCED WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Secre- tary Swanson has announced changes in oragnization of part of the United States fleet, effective October 1. The changes will result in reassignment of flag officers. All destroyers of the scouting force will be transferred to the battle force and destroyer squad- rons organized into two flotillas. Rear Admiral Walter R. Sexton will be senior commander of battle force destroyers as well as com- mander of destroyer flotilla 2, bat- tle force. Rear Admiral Willlam S. Pye, now commander of scouting force destroyers, will become commander of destroyer flotilla 1 in the battle force. All patrol plane squadrons, with the exception of the utility wing, will be transferred from the base force to the scouting force and the aircraft scouting force will be com- posed of the aircraft tenders and carriers Wright, Langley, Thrush and Owl, along with the fleet air bases at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, now commander of the aircraft base force, will be commander of the new aircraft scouting force. Commander Allen I. Price will re- main as commander of the utility wing base force, composed of two squadrons based on the destroyer tender Rigel. Anchorage Radio License Extended WASHINGTON, zept. 29. — The Communications Commission has granted the Anchorage Radio Cor- poration two months extension of llhe license for Station KFQD. IPRESIDENT IN | Roosevelt Greets the “Old Guard” at Antietam President Franklin D. Roosevelt is pictured shaking hands with veterans of the War Between the States at Anti:etnm Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Md., where he delivered an address on the 75th anniversary of that bloody battle, in which Union forces drove back Lee’s men in gray. Left to right in the picture are Corporal Basil Tamlav. 94. of the Uniwh Army: Caotain Robert E. Miles. 96. of the Confederates, and President Rojsevelty BIG BLOCKADE S BROKEN BY | AFL IN FRISGO Teamsters’ Union Start to Move Freight Accumu- lated in 4 Weeks SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 29. —Cheered by a crowd of CIO long- shoremen and warehousemen, 400/ trucks went to congested docks to- day to move cargoes that had accu- mulated in the four weeks bloci ade, The Executive of the Teamsters'| {Union announced that the boycott {had been withdrawn in order to avert financial distress to farmers| and others involved. Hampered by piles of cnmmodmesl and working space, truckers said it] would require at least four days to) restore normal operations. g SLEEPING CASE . SEALED, DEATH Pretty Patricia Maguire Is| Dead After Five, Half Years in Coma CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 29.—The enigma of pretty Patricia Maguire's five and one-half year of sleep, is sealed in death. The 32-year-old suburb Oak Park stenographer, for whom time stop- ped at the age of 26, died in a hospital here last night without bridging the abyss of unconscious- ness created by the baffling ail- ment. Lethargic encephalitis, a common affliction of pheumonia, was the, immediately cause of death. Pastor Who Wed Duke fo Live, U.S, NEW YORK Sep. 29.—The Rev. R. Anderson Jardine who married the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, said he planned to live in the Unit- ed States permanently and mighc‘ become leader of the Chinatown| Bowery Mission. Sailing for England after a two- months’ lecture tour, he said he would come back in January to es- tablish his residence. MR., MRS. ENGLISH SAIL ABOARD YUKON Carl English, Manager of Miscel- laneous Operations for the Pacific Coast Coal Company, left for Lhe} south, accompanied by Mrs. Eng-| lish, board the Yukon. Mr. and Mrs. English have been i ties, | Propaganda Being Circulated In U. S. in Various Ways to Get Nation in Foreign Wars By PRESTON GROVER SUICIDE SQUAD JUST EAILS IN GREAT ATTEMPT . Push Mine to Near Idzumo When Lookout Gives Alarm EXPLOSION QUICKLY FOLLOWS IN RIVER Defense Line Rushed by In- fantry—Turned Back in Terrific Slaughter SHANGHAI, Sept. 20.—A daring Suicide Squad of 20 Chinese soldiers sacrificed their lives at dawn today in a desperate attempt that just failed to destroy the Japanese flag- ship Idzumo, as the mine they propelled through: the Whangpoo Rived blasted a 150-foot geyser of water that sprayed the battleship with shrapnel. Immediately the entire water~ front battle lines northwest of the city crashed into the inferno of war and the Chinese declared that the long awaited Japanese big push on the Shanghai front had begun. Invaders Hurled Back Chinese troops manning the de- fense lines stretching 20 miles northwest of the ecity, hurled back wave after wave of atatcking Jap- anese infantry with terrific slaugh- ter. The blast of the mine, a few SOVIET FLIER ‘ (hundred yards north of the star- | WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—If YOU poard side of the flagship, rocked wake up one of these mornings the Idzumo and the cruiser Aug- with a desire to fight the Japanese, | ysta, hurling officers and sailors !San Diego Padres, is one up on the there was a cry of indignation. or to shoot your Chinese laundry-, LOCATES LAND, to help fignt the war in Spain, don’t be surprised. Somebody is try- ing to make you feel that way. Attempts being made to propa-' grandize the couniry by one side or, | another in the two current wars SearCher' HOWCVCI’, Finds are as evident as a dent in a fender.' No Trace of Levanevsky 1t is a favorite failing of Americans to want to mix in when the slug- | and Comrades Iging starts and enither of the bel- 'ligerents can be blamed if they try POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 20—Soviet Pilot Graciansky has to get us to slugging on their side. During the World War the culti- retuljned hete 058 »Illght for the g ion of the noble American sen- | missing six Soviet fliers, and re- timent began early. So early did it ported he sighted land about Lati- begin that f th i tude 7650 and Longitude 153 de- nco that some of the sirenlike . .ging starts and neither of the bel- Srose, estures were not eve nized The pilot said he believed the 5cosrco oF SYML ganda until 20 years after the war, land was only a sandspit and sur- when the Senate Munitions Com- rounded by shallow water. He sug-' mittee looked under the carpet. gests that the place be used S 2/ nere were the matter o?ermes. base for Polar flights. |The British Government ordered | Graciansky found no trace of Lev-' 80,000 good fighti rifles from a anevsky and his missing five com- noy, Egglnnd gun:egry concern and : rades. paid down a starter of cash to per- TR e e R mit the plant to set up the special PADRES WIN }machlnery to make them. A few imomhs rolled by, the Germans roll- ‘ed across the Rhine and the amaz- FIRsT GAME ed British discovered that not ri- P. C. SERIES . i s i 'LOYALIST SPAIN'S OFFER {Qutfielder ThomPSOH Hero Now that involved only a matter 0[ Day—aMakes Two of a couple of million dollars, not Chcalt Clouls much in comparison to what the | | order for rifles. fles but machine guns were needed to stop them. So they wrote over {to J. P. Morgan and Company, their fiscal agents, to cancel the war ultimately cost. But Britain at that time thought seriously about SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 29.— owing us $2,000,000. Yet when the Outfielder Rupert Thompson, of the stop order landed in New England Portland Bedvers after the Padres The company had spent much cash took a ten inning game last night already making machinery, and to from Portland by a score of 4 to 3 stop would mean loss of a nice prof- for the Pacific Coast League title. it ‘Thompson’s second home run of | the day was the deciding run, How They Stand Won Lost Moreover, other manufacturers began looking askance at such acti- ’vmes and wondered if this busi- |ness of selling to belligerents was San Diego 1 0 'such a fat oyster as it first ap- Portland 0 1 |peared. It was a critical moment, man or even in send some money | out of their bunks. Suicide Squad Starts During the night the suicide squad, some swimming and some ’uslnx sampans, gradually floated the mine from the Pootung shore, across the river from Shanghal, through the line of Japanese pa- trol boats. Mine Set Off A Japanese lookout on the ship spotted the suicide squad which |was about ready to push the mine through the steel net that sur- rounded the ship. Chinese comrades on shore touched off the mine, destroying the squad and ripping a wide hole in the steel net. NO NEW CASES OF PARALYSIS DEVELOP HERE ‘Details of Health Rulings Issued by Health Department Examination of a child belleved to have had infantile paralysis at the Minfield Home, proved negative today and the third day of the health ban passed with announce- ment of no further cases in Juneau. However, in emphasis of the im- portance of observing the present health regulations, the Territorial Department of Health today issued the following details of quarantine rules to be maintained until Octo- ber 11: (1) Beginning today no children will be allowed to leave their homes even for car rides as it has proven difficult to control the children going into the country. (2) Children from different fami- (Continued on Page Eight) “Give Me 1,000 The title will be decided, four'as documentary evidence found by wins out of seven games. "the Senate Committee disclosed. 16 - S0 England finally came across with full payment for the order as proof cnPPER P | 10of her desire to do right by the outfits from which she expected to ibuy her shot and shell. TAKEs nEcLINE‘ Now this isn’® an exact parallel, ' |but fresh in the news is the offer of the Spanish Loyalist govern- NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—The price, ment to begin paying at once the of domestie copper was reduced onetde(aulwd claims of Spanish com- ceént to 12 cents a pound today and'panies which owed $30,000,000 to Alaska Stamps,” Says Radiogram The exclusive announcement yes- terday by the Associated Press that Alaska stamps were to be printed and the first sale was to be made at the Juneau Post Office during the first part of November, received quick attention in the States. [a similar cut is foreshadowed m:tso.ooo.ouo to American merchants| Postmaster Albert Wile received {the price of export copper which is on pre-revolutionary business. Gen-|a night letter this morning from (now taking a slump abroad. - eee— C.D.A. MEETING A small business meeting was Catholic America, Daughters of !ial Miles M. Sherover, representa-|Harry Ioor, of Indianapolis, Indi- |tive of the @panish government in|ana, that he wanted 1,000 stamps !scming the claims, didn't mince|and would send self-addressed en- matters. He said the negotiations|velopes to Juneau to be stamped and theld last night by members of the were undertaken now to convince|mailed. the world the Loyalist government| Right on the heels of this radio- visiting briefly in Juneau and dur- with Mrs. Walter G. Hellan, Grand didn’t share the communistic disre-|gram came other demands for ing their stay here were the in-|Regent, presiding. The next meet-'gard for private property. centive for several informal par-'ing of the organization will be el ——t on October 12, stamps purchases and already over 300 requests have been received for the States. (Continued on Page Two)