The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1937, Page 1

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L, NO 7603 JUNEAU ALASKA bATURDAY OC FOBPR i F957 M}MBbR ASSOCIA H l) PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS CHINESE, JAPANESE FIGHT TO STANDSTILL High HUGO L BLACK TELLS COUNTRY HIS KKK SLANT Admits He Belonged to Or- ganization But Later Re- signed Membership WAS LIBERAL SENATOR HiS RECORD PROVES IT Denies (Imn,,(‘s Made Re-! garding Insinuations on Races, Religion 2—~Former Hugo L £ te Justice of the reme Court of the United States radio address last night. told Vation he once joined the Ku 1x Klan but later resigned his hip. charged that an attempt was to convince America prejudiced and intoler- the Jews, Catholics and made he wa inst the an Stands on Record “1 believe that my record as Unit- 1tes Senator refutes every im- ation of racial or religious intol- said Black. “The record shows that I was of that group of liberal Senators who have consis- tently fought for eivil, economic and pli erance, gious rights for all Americans d to race or creed. Did Jeoin KKX “Insinuation of racial or religi- ous intole ice made concerning me are based on the fact I joined the Ku Kiux Klan about 15 years ago. re join the Ku Klux, Klan but T later resigned and I have neyer re- joined. What appeared then or what appears now on the records of that zation I do not know. Pointed Statements I have never nsidered and I do not now consider the unsolicited card given me shortly after my no- mination to the Senate as member- ship of any kind in the Ku Klux Klan. T never used the membership card and I did not keep it and before be- coming Senator T dropped the Kian, : had nothing whatsoever to the Ku Klux Klan since that time. T abandoned it compiete- organ: (Continued on Page Five) S e STATEMENTS ARE MADE ON BLACK'S TALK Comment Forthcoming Re- garding Address by | High Justice | (By Associated Press) The following are comments made | Associate Justice Hugo L. Black’s and sharp criticism to his| critics United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler: “I hope the Klan subject will now be dropped. Justic Black has made a fine explanation and T think he has satisfied the peoplp generally.” Minority House Leader Snell: “This has been purely a Democratic | row on toadings that I expected | against Black’s nomination. I have | nothing to add or substract from that position.” From Lewis John L. Lewis, CIO leader: “It was a powerful and straight for- ward statement. It seems to me the| incident is closed.” Frederich H. Stinchfield, Retir-| ing President of the American Bar| Association: “If Mister Justice Black says his record in his seat far off- sets the charges of bigotry result- i from the fact that he belonged to the Klan, the average citizens must bow to that conclusion.” Forthright, Clean John E. Edgerton, President of the Southern Industrial Council: “I have never considered Black big encugh for the Supreme Court but! he made a statement as forthright| and clean as could have been done under the circumstances.” United States Senator Rush @ D. (Continued on Page Five) Court Official Replies to His Critics Hugo L. Black (above), phatic s He Talks to lhAv [ation told America last night, in a peinted cm- statement, that he is not a member of the Ku Klux Kilan and refuted charges of implication of racial or religious intolerance, L. MKINNON IS GIVEN VACATED arbage Question Comes| Up—Athletic Club Boosted At the City Council meeting !night in\ the Council Chambers, Lockie MacKinnon, pioneer Juneau | was the sole nominee for ! the position of City Councilman, replacing Frank McCafferty, whose ! | chair was declared vacant by the | Council because of prolonged ab-| sence from the city. Councilman’ MacKinnon will be| seated at the next regular meecmg jof the Council on October 15. The question of garbage and sew— |age disposal was raised before the body by Ray Trafton, | from the Central resident TWIN STORMS, | MEXICO GULF, COUNCIL CHAIR CAUSESDELUGE New Orleans Has Twelve! and One-half Inches of Rain in 24 Hours NEW ORLEANS, La., last TWin storms in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast brought New | Orleans a tropical deluge of | than inches in 24 hours. The 121 storm Oct. 2. more area extends from | | Florida to Texas. l - .- THREE SELL ON FISH EXCHANGE Alaska a delegate | 17600 pounds of salmon today. Labor Councnllthe Hyperion, Capt. Clifford Berg, | | Trafton asked that action be, taken|ACF bought 6500 pounds, Lesther | ‘l’.lv the city to prevent littering of |Walton on the 30-D-768, sold 200 Coast Flsllenes bought From | \local beaches with refuse from the|pounds and the Marie, Capt. P, Os- woid, sold 900 pounds. The Dixon and the Marie took on \ice, |garbage dump, preferably through| the construction of an efficient in- cinerator. “There are many places in dnv\n- town Juneau that have no sewage| disposal facilities at all,” said Traf- ton. A.J. Will Help Mayor Judson reported MRS. - e BRADLEY HONORED ! For Mrs, Worthen Bradley, who | is visiting in Juneau briefly, Mrs. J. F. Mullen entertained at lunch- he hadeon today, assembling a small group been advised by L. H. Metzgar, Sup- lof friends for the afternoon. The affair was held at the Mullen erintendent of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, that company will pe of garbage under charge as soon as the deposition has reached a point where the flume will | Mrs be in a position for trucks to un- at the Governor's House for Mr. and load burdens under it. “It is likely that this sil{-laden di ciently to eliminate trouble,” said Mayor Judson Trafton further suggested that the screen at the garbage dock be! made more adequate to catch dumped refuse. The Council agreed that this might be done if persons the (Cuml’nued' on Page JEjgm) | M present, TUCSON, Arizoua, | woman killed and 20 others, | mostly children, Gov. his residence, and was one of a num- ormit the rh\mnm;“"” of events which have been given the flume dis- in honor of Mrs. Bradley. Late this afternoon, John W. Troy and Robert Bender were at home s. Bradley and their .o friends. arge will bury garbage suffi- 20 CHILDREN HURT IN BUS ACCIDENT was AN Oct. 2. .—Org were hurt when a bus enroute from the little Mormon community at tism, swerved Pomeren for bap- from the highway and overturned. sinsula. ‘GRAND COULEE 1S INSPECTED BY PRESIDENT | | Over Ten Thousand Greet Chief Executive at Pm]ert Today GRAND COULEE DAM, Oct President Franklin D. Roosevelt to- | |day inspected project, the great- est conerete structure in the world. | The Chief Executive and his party | |arrived at Ephrata at 8:30 o'clock | this morning and breakfasted be- | |fore his 270 mile auto drive to this| |great dam. The President was fully acquaint- | led with Justice Black’s address by | members of his staff but made no| comment. He did not hear the radio address as the set was reported out of order. The President’s son, James | jtold him about the speech as he th(\ it over the newsmen's radio. 1 At Dam Project ! At the dam project, which he vis- | {ited three years ago, the President | Bs found the $178,000,000 structure well | jon yea the way to completion. Three s ago he saw a desert and de- farmhouses but today he saw ving community bustling with | activity. Ten thousand dam workers and residents of the area greeted the President on his arrival. The President was in Tacoma last night after “a wonderful 230 miles” of drive through the Olympic Pen- ‘The - President - indieated strongly, in a rear platform address in Tacoma, that he favored enlarg- ing the Olympic National Monu- ment W Sec. of Lahor Is Not Invited To AFL Meet WASHINGTON, Oct, ru st time in history, ‘Fedpranon of Labor has passed lover the Secretary of Labor in is- suing invitations speakers at its annual convention. | The list of those invited to speak {at the A. F. of L. convention open- ing in Denver October 4 has been {made public. The name of Secre- tary of Labor Frances Perkins was 'not on it. Inquiry at federation | headquarters here confirmed that the omission was not an accident. |No explanation of the action was \gjvcn 2—For the American the for | Censures Prepared Strangely enough, the list did carry the name of Chairman Joseph |Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board. And Mad- den has for days been the subject of severe federation criticism, com- ing in for charges that he and his board favor John L. Lewis’ Com- mittee for Industrial Organization jover the A. F. of L. Moreover, the labor board chairman and his col- |leagues are slated to be the object |of a dozen proposed resolutions of icensure in the coming convention | proceedings. | President Roosevelt’s name head- ed the list of those invited to speak iat the convention, but he is not expected to attend, because he will ibe on the return swing of his Western trip at that time, and far north of Denver. High School Orientals in | Sharp Clash LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 2—A battle within the shadow of the County Hall of Justice between 100 evenly divided Chinese and Japan- ese high school students, caused numerious injuries before startled sheriff's deputies quelled it. Two boys and one deputy were treated for cuts. The fight started over the taunts hurled among groups. As ]apanese Bombs Rained Death on . Chinal \DEFENSE |_|NE Death and destruction rained on the terror-stricken Tsangchow area in China as repeated raids by Jap- nese bombers left huge districts in shambles. This rapiidc photo shows the smoking dential dxsmct \\hcre incendmry bombs started OHMER GRANTED TITLETO LAND AT PETERSBURG Ickes Reveleee Land Ofilce Ruling in Favor of Yukon Fur Farms Request WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Secre- tary Harold L. Ickes advised Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond today that the Interior Department has reversed the land office ruling de- nying the Yukon Fur Farms of Petersburg title to land upon which | it is located. The reversal means that the Yu- kon Fur Farms, operated by Earl N. Ohmer and associates at Peters- burg, will be given title to land on which they now have extensive mink-raising operations, acnurding to George A. Parks, District Cad- astral Engineer for the U. S. Pub- lic Survey Office. Mr. Ohmer has been trying to get title for many years and final- ly applied under the manufacturing site law which makes certain pro- visions for granting title to lands to be used in manufacturing or other productive industry. The land office held that fur farming came under the special legislation on fur farm leasing and not under the manufacturing site act. The Secre- tary’'s decision reverses the land officé and, as a result, grants title to the Ohmer enterprise. While no complete copy of the ruling has been received here yet, Mr. Parks said it may have far- reaching effect on other fur farm- ing operauvn.s in Ahtsku Mystery Plague Hits Japanese TOKYO, Oct. 2. — With three hupdred persons already dead in Fukuoka Prefecture from a myster- ious creeping plague of death and| several thousand ill, mostly chil- dren, Japanese Secret Service men and Tokyo criminologists were to-, day investigating a theory that the plague is the work of a germ spreader. The source of the plague has not as yet been determined. There are close to 300,000 persons in Fukuoka, the 'and the disease has been spread- |bankers ing rapidly. human At Nanking the ruing in the resi- the third ma_lor Navy Squadron Is Northbound To Sitka Base Two Southbound Planes Forced Down on l[ Flight, Seattle | T SEATTLE, Oct. 2. Six Navy planes, squadron VP-17, took off from Sand Point this morning on a scheduled nonstop flight to Sitka to replace another squadron which left the Alaska base yesterday for | Seattle. Two of the southbound squadron planes were forced down and stayed m\vlnlghb at Port Angeles. | - FINANCES PLAY GREAT PART IN * DAYECONOMICS ' Brokers, Bankers. Others | All Mixed Up, But New Deal Here to Stay | | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Every- {day economics in brief: | One of theTeasons for Wall Street |protests ‘against the restrictive rulea) jon stock market trading Is that the volume of turnover is cut down. | Brokers get a nip out of every share of stock bought angd sold on| |the exchange and restrictions nat-| urally cut in where it hurts. Neither the Federal Reserve Board nor Securities-Exchange of-| |ficials became especially perturbed by protests. . . . Another angle on the action of by de-froeting $300,000,000 in gold |is that Federal Reserve officials sus- pected that bankers were all sel to begin talking higher rates. |and the Treasury in loosening up credit| interest fires which added to the terrors of the situation. American embpassy was forced to evacuate the U, S. headquarters during attacks which followed a sudden aerial thrust at Canton, Chinese port to be rnldld SOVIET UNION WANTSTOAID SPAN. REPUBLIC s| Demands thal Noninterven- tion Scheme Be Immed- iately Abandoned LONDON, Oct. 2. The Soviet Union is reported to have de- manded abandonment of the entire Spanish and thus permit shipments of arms and volunteers to bolster the forces of the Valencia Government. It is reliably learned that the Soviet Union has dispatched a note | to Lord Plymouth, Chairman of the Nonintervention Committee, that the Franco-Spanish frontier and also all coast ports be thrown open to such help. Yesterday it was officially an- nounced that Italy and Germany were to throw forces of airplanes soldiers into Spain to help Gen. Franco capture the country before winte A crisis appears near, it is said, |as Italy intends to reinforce the dreds of German bombers are to be sent to beat Madrid and the people into submission or kill the civilians and soldiers. Russia inti- | mates she will help the myallsts anan Shot Accidentall ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 2.— Mrs. Tom Collins, of Seldovia, was :shot accidentally in the abdomen while cleaning a .22 rifle. She was | {flown here and underwent an op- leration which doctors said gave a for recovery. .. COURTMARTIA 50-50 chance | Not much doubt is held that the action of the Treasury was |dictated in part by the Pederal Re- |serve Board policy of lower interest rates, o e ie !AGAIN THE BANKERS Many government financial offi- |cials lay part of the blame for the sluggishness of the building indus- try at the door of bankers. They are ready enough to agree that the { (Continued on Page Two) here! had plenty of trouble (1ur-l WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. The vy has summoned two for a gen- 1 courtmartial at the Norfolk Yard next week to try the senior officer and navigator of the |cruiser Omaha for negligence and neglect of duty in connection with the stranding of the vessel last July Na er: off the Bahamas. Capt. Howard MacLeary and eut. Comdr. Edgar R. Winkler are the hearing. nonintervention scheme Fascist forces in Spain and hun-| two officers facing courtmartial, - UNBROKEN 8Y CHARGING MEN | Defenders Hold Invaders Back in; Furious Onslapghls [WARSHIPS BLANKET ‘ AREA WITH BARRAGE ‘Machme Guns Mo Down | - Infantrymen — Tanks ‘ Are Being Stalled SHANGHAI, Oct. 2.— The Chi=~ nese and Japanese have fought each |other to a standstill in the fifth |day of the battle for Shanghai's north station where the Chinese line is anchored close to the For- eign Settlemant. Japanese warships in the Whang- poo blasted the area with a barrage of shells and planes dropped bombs (but the defenders in all areas stub- |bornly held all positions and es- pecially in the Chapei sector where the invaders have been unable to |rout the Chinese from the Pan- theon theatre although repeated thrusts have been made. The Chinese have stalled the Jap- |anese tanks with torn up rails. | The Chinese have mowed down ithe assaulting Japanese forces by (machine guns, Japanese officers in P-lplns ve- port that the little conquest in the |Shantung Province has begun with the capture of Shagung, which they claim has resulted in the collapse of Chinese rehlstnnce OB ot 77 EIGHT DRIFTING AT SEAIN OPEN - BOATUNLOGATED Believe Crew of Seiner Limit Took to Seine Skiff Eight men in a seine skiff are belnu sought on the open waters |of Christian Sound, having disap- peared with the seiner Limit three days ago in a heavy storm. Wreckage from the craft was found in the form of hatch covers, \running lights and personal effects of the crew, but the big seine skift was not located. It is supposed that the Limit foundered and the crew |took to the skiff, probably being car- ried out to sea down Chatham |Straits and out into Christian Sound. The Cutters Cyane and Alert have been dispatched to the scene and will comb the open ocean. The Limit is a 59-foot seiner built in Tacoma in 1927. She had a gross tonnage of 50 tons and 34 net tons and is owned by the Storfold and !Grondahl Packing Company of Washington Bay. { e Child Dies Playing Hide and Seek FREDERICK, Oklahoma, Oct. 2. —Billy Harbour, aged 6, is dead, the vietim of a hide and seek |game played with his brothers and sisters in their home. The parents found three children locked in a u-dar chest where they had hidden. door of the chest jammed. The other two children were re- | vived. . ® WHERE YOU CAN GET e . YOUR EMPIRE . . . ® Butler-Mauro Drug Store. . ® Hollmann's Pharmacy. . ® Juneau Drug Company. . ® Smith’s Drug Store. . ® Race's Drug Store. . ® Gastineau Hotel. . Hotel Juneau. . ® Hayes Shop. . ® Alstrom’s News Stand. . ® o 00000000 00 P