The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TI}IIE” MEMBER ASSOCIATLD PRESS TRIMMING OF| HIGHWAY FUND NOW REQUESTED | President t Sends Speaal Message to Congress on Subject WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Presi dent Roosevelt today asked Con-| gress to reduce greatly the Govern- ment’s immediate financial outlay' for aiding states in highway con-| struction, asserting that “definite | steps are necessary in order to bal-; ance the budget.” The President proposed, in his special message delivered to Con- gress today, cancellation of the $214,000,000 apportionment author-| ized for distribution among the, states during the 1939 fiscal year| and spreading over the next two| fiscal years, $200,000,000 appropria- tion, the balance authorized for the present fiscal year and then limit| $125,000,000 annually on all public| roads for and after the 1940 fiscal | year. The President asks for a revis-| ion of the Federal Aid and High-| way law to eliminate requirement of the Federal government to ap- portion to the various states an an-! nual amgunt authorized for an ap-‘ propriation. As soon as the Senate Clerk had finished reading the message, Sen- | ator Hayden asserted that Congress‘l should not repudiate a “contractoral oblization.” Senator Hayden referred specifi cally to that part of the President’s message suggesting Congress cancel | the $214,000000 item for road aid for the fiscal year beginning next July. He said many states had mapped their road program for two years when the Legislatures met last year. TWO NATIONS ARE PLANNING | WORLD MOVE Broad Consultations Indi- cated to Try to Settle | Present Unrest | LONDON, Nov. 30.—British Pre-| mier Nevile Chamberlain and Frencli Foreign Minister Delbos to- day issued declarations indicating they planned broad consultations with other powers looking toward a general settlement of world unrest. Premier Chamberlain’s state- ment said Germany's colonial de- mands could not be considered “in| isolation.”” He declared that me‘e and Great Britain are ready to co- Royal thily Dies in Crash of Airliner Debris of an airliner in which 11 Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse Bei Rhein of G Ostend, Belgium, where the plane fell after hitting a chimney in a fog. local Belgium authorities, radio to New York from London, don ceremony cloaked with the tr: persons were killed pany, is shown was confiscated temporarily by releised. Weddmg Held Dosplte ng()d 'y [}[]VERN[]R TROY Dressed in somber black, Miss Margaret Campbell Geddes became the bride of Grand Duke Ludwig Von Hesse Bei Rhein in a private Lon- agedy of an crash in Belgium that killed nearly ail of the bridegroom’s family—five members of the former German royal family of Hesse. immediately after the wedding on their honeymoon, which started with a trip to Bclglum to claim the bodies of those killed. The newlyweds (above) left operate with other powers protec ing the rights of treaty obligations| in the Far East | The statement was read in thv; House of Commons after the heads | of the British government had cum—‘ pleted a two days review of their|™ problems and destinies of world danger spots. French Foreign Minister Delbos's statement was along similar lines. ——————— CLIFTON ENROUTE TO KODIAK AS TEACHER R. L. Clifton of Valdez, former Su- perintendent of Schools there and | also at Petersburg, is aboard the ‘Yukon returning from a trip to the States. He is en route now to Ko- diak where he will become Super- intendent of Schools in that city. Mr. Clifton is one of the oldest edu- cators in point of service in the Territorial school system. - e, LYDICK THROUGH J. V. Lydick Jr. Assistant Agent| for the Alaska Steamship Company | at Cordova is a through passenger} on the steamer Yukon for the Prince | William Sound city. Now Building Used for Cur ‘Sorml Security R( serve, Up,Is vag rent Expenses, ButCovered byGout.1.O.U. RECITAL IS | INTERRUPTED, BOMB FUMES [Fritz Kreisler Is Victim of ment 1. 0. U. notes are substituted| for it. Outrage at Michi- gan University ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 30.| —An explosion of a tear gas bomb, ‘I dropped by an unidentified per- son, interrupted a recital given last; night by Fritz Kreisler, violinist, a',‘ the University of Michigan. Fumes spread rapidly and caused 'to By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTOM, Nov. 30.—People who grow excited over what could happen to the $50,000,000,000 So- cial Security reserve now piling up m the Treasury might be inter- |ested in what happened to educa- {tional trust funds in the States. The Social Security money bemg |paid in by employes and emplavcrs[ |is used by the Federal Treasury| \for current expenses and gmcm- It is all perfectly legal—!' not in the same class, of course,| with what has been done by some i Dugout states to Federal school funds. CORNELL DID ALL RIGHT In the years before the Civil War, !the government began making land !grants to the states for educational purposes. Each state was expected sell The money was to be put in “irre-| including five members of the family of the late the land at a fair price.| amid the damaged brickyard at The picture, transmitted by but later - SAYS BUSINESS IS ON UPSWING Chief Lxecutwe Back from | Trip, Reports Roosevelt Sentiment Strong as Ever After an absénce of several weeks which were spent resting and va-| cationing in the south, Gov. John' ‘W. Troy returned- to Juneau today aboard the Yukon—and would have been back a week earlier had it not been for the cancellation of the Alaska's sailing last week due to the strike. “While the Orient has impaired the lumber market in the northwest, and that has slowed up business somewhat, the feeling seems to me to be that there is nothing at which to be alarmed regarding business condi- tions,” the Governor said today. “If it were not for the uncertain- ty of the labor situation, things would be better. “Howwver, no one expects a pro- tracted depression, and the upswing is already here. “In politics speculation will con- tinue to be rife until the regular session of Congress gets under way, but it seems to me that the Ad- ministration is in full command of the political situation and that President Roosevelt is as popular as ever throughout the States. “His great popularity in the northwest was indicated everywhere by the ovations accorded him on his trip which he had completed short- ly before we went south., When we arrived in Seattle people were still talking ahout the demonstrations in his honor where ever he went Postmaster General Farley, who was in Seatlle while I was there, met with a fine reception.” Mrs. Robert Bender, who the trip south with her father, also returned on the Yukon. Basket Social Juneau Ski Club 1s to Hold | Affair in Legion | The Juneau Ski Club basket social will be an event of this PFriday eve- ning, taking place at the American Legion Dugout where a large group of members will assemble at 9 p.m. Attractively decorated baskets, following novel as well as color- many to leave the big auditorium | vocable” trusts so that only the in- ful motifs, will add to the occasion, hastily. New Alaska Mining Bill | Inell university is partially support- Gets O. K. of Committee WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — The House Territories Committee has approved of a bill introduced by Al- aska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to permit of mining on all Alaskan shores between high and low tide lines. | Two other Dimond measures, one | permitting public utility districts to issue bonds up to 10 per cent of the value af the property within the districts, and another to convey to Ketchikan the old court house site val, for school purposes, also won appro- i terest would be used to help school 'children learn the better way of life. Some states did very well. Cor- ed by a healthy endowment growing out of the wise operation lof its share of the New York State allotment. Old Ezra Cornell kept both the land and the money and of the hands of political operators’ and his nanfe is praised to this day. It is true the Federal Government seemed to guard the land grants with all the protective legislation a person (Continued on Page Three) 'and will be presented at auction to ‘lhe highest bidders. , Orrin Kimball is chairman of the 'affair, assisted by Miss Louise Kem- per and Lu Liston. All members or applicants who have not as yet been contacted are asked to make reservations with Mr. Kimball im- mediately. - All or parts of seventeen states were carved from the Louisiana Purchase. VS Beech wood is being used in Ger- many to replace, the customary cork (for bottle stoppers. war condition in the | made To Be Friday AlASKAN WAY IS DEDICATED, SEATTLE EXPO Civic Aucfio_rium Trans- formed—Northland Chav- acters, Exhibits, There Seattle, Nov. 30.—The Civic Au- ditorium has been transformed into a bit of Alaska, past ahd ‘present, as the big celebration started here last night with the dedication of Alaskan Way, Seattle's new water- front thoroughfare. City Councilman Robert Harlin, in behalf of Mayor John F. Dore, who was unable to attend the formal opening of the thoroughfare, dedi- cated the street not to Alaska but to “all Alaskans .who played such a prominent part in the develop- ment of this. great city of Seattle.” Sculptored “Sourdough” With the high model of a “Sour- dough,” sculptored by Alonzo Vic- tor Lewis, standing in the center of the Auditorium, bright hued to- tem poles appeared to be on sentinel duty and forming a guard to the “Sourdough.” Former and present residents of the northland renewed acquain- tances. Skagway Bill Fonda, the model for “Sourdough;” Sandy Frew, foot- racer; Sam Adams of Nome and |Klondike Kate were at the door as |greeters and then mingled with the| {erowd during the evening. i Exhibits, Too | There are exhibits that cover the |development of Alaska from relics {of the Klondike days, displayed by | |the Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, to v.he! more modern exhibits of canned goods and ores. The exhibition will be held until next Sunday night. Each night is| dedicated to a dxffl:rent Aluka citv “Crime Tourist” Must Die May 6, Arkansas Prison | She Is Gomg to hunt in society’s usual manner. and shows her selecling warm ¢ She appears very Jnun mink coat. Two Japanue | Officers in Race, Killing Chinese TOKYO, Nov. 30.—The news paper Nichi Nichi reports a. di patch from Changchow, China, as saying two Japanese sub- lieutenants are engaged in a race to see which will be the first to kill 100 Chinese soldiers. The score stands today, accord- ing to the dispatoh, 56 (o 2. Conviction of Former Sun-' day School Teacher Up- held in Murder Case LITTLE ROCK Arkansas, Nov. 30.—The Arkansas Stite Supreme Court has ruled that Lester Brockel- hurst, 23 “crime tourist,” must die in the electric chair for the May 6 hiteh hike slaying of Victor A. Gates, thus upholding the death sentence of the lower court which was given the former Sunday school teacher. The court held that the killing of Gates, Little Rock planter, by the young man was “inhuman and out- | rageous.” INVADERS ARE ON ADVANGE T INTERIOR GHINA Defenders Reported Re-'" treating, Subject to In- tensive Air Bombing SHANGHAI, Nov. 30.—The Chi- nese defenders, according to the Ja- s is Miss Kay Barker, New York Socialite, in Juneau today, aboard the steamer Yukon. She is going to the Cook Inlet section where she hopes to trap 1,000 foxes. Although a socialite, she is not going H unt F ox¢ to This picture was taken in Seattle lothing for her trip. She is not dressed this way in Juneau today but is wearing a Park Avenue ty in the co-t, too. HEIRESS PLANS 'RAISING FOXES - WESTWARDISLE { Comely Mlss Leaves Park | Avenue for Rough and Ready Alaska mkers are sissies—says Kay Bmku, jaunty, titian-haired heiress who is heading for lonely Ushagat Island to the Westward to | see roxes she planted there Sue m/k» Alaskan parlance, she is a Joe." [ get regular 0 bored with life, 1 for mysel! what you ust have Lo he sighed an easy Hotel ar hing etiled herself in chair at the Gastinesu wrapped her mink coal abou er In 1929, Miss Dark: plan pairs of blue fox on the lonely Cook Inlet entrance island that is one 3 21 {panese spokcsman, are reported fall- of the Barren Islands group. When |ing back to a line between 40 and she reache: her island this time, it A S Na“n" s I_eadl“g {60 miles southeast of Nanking with she expects to find 1,000 foxes, whose | . {the Japa Scorer to Prance Over Gotton Bowl DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 30.—It will! be Byron Whizzer White of the Col- orado University Buffaloes against the top gridiron talent of the south- west in the New Year's game at the Dallas Cotton Bowl. The Buffaloes, Rocky Mountain Conference champions, have ac- cepted a Cotton Bowl Committee in- |vitation to play the January 1 game. Whizzer White is the nation’s leading individual scorer and is ex- pected to go into the All American lineup in a slow walk. | 1If the Rice Institute, of Houston, win Saturday's game with Southern Methodist, the Rice Owls will also go to the Cotton Bowl, but if they lose, Colorado will meet Texas| ,Christian. | - e — NORTH SEA AT 1 AM. The North Sea is due in port at 1 o'clock in the morning according to a radio received at 4 o'clock by Agent Fred C. Charman. column in pursuit. The Japasese, according to their reports from the advancing army, |said the Chinese are under an in- tensive aerial bombardment and the Chinese defenders have retreat- ed nearly to the Chinckiang-Tan- yang-Kintan fortified line close to |the mnow almost deserted former Capital City. The Japanese according to their gained ground steadily on the Cen- tral front and gaining on the north- ern and southern extremities. Japanese scouting planes report the Chinese, defending Nanking, are constructing a trench network, as a line of defense, which ending at the Yangtze river. D DIRECTED VERDICT FOR DEFEND ANTS IN DAMAGE ACTION, A directed verdict for former May-i or I. Goldstein and Capt. Tom Sand- vik of the halibuter Norland was ex- tends from Nanking in a semicircle | skins are worth all the way from $20 to $90 apiece at present prices. The island is 21 square miles in extent, grass topmed bluffs and lush meadows—"“A beautiful place,” bubbles New York's Kay Barker. To Write Book “I don't know just how I'll find the condition of the house there and the feed houses and all, but I'm going to stay there for awhile at |least, and work on a book I have been writing on Alaska for several months.” Miss Barker pouted when asked lif she had liked Alaska when she ‘had first come North. “Heavens! 1 had never been West before and when I got to Se attle—I thought I'd never live an- other minute I was so depressed— and then Alaska! For nine days on the steamer Starr out of Seward, I hardly ate a mouthful. I felt so low and out of place with natives same table. and now (and fishermen at the “T got used to it though | (Cdnctnuv(( on Pugn Foun eight i Park Evinyoo—but in ISEIZE LAUNGH, LOWER FLAG OF UNITED STATES Protest Imn_\edialdy Made to Nippon Official at bhangh.u ITALIAN CRAFT ALSO CONFISCATED Marine Incidents Are Re- ported from Shanghai Front Today SHANGHAIL, Nov. 30.—Ameri- can Consul General Clarence Gauss protested to the Japan- ese Consulate this forenoon after a Japanese naval crew had seized an American owned stea- mer’s launch and then lowered the craft's American flag. The launch is owned by the China Foreign Steamship Com- pany, American firm, agent for the Roosevelt line. The launch, flying the Stars and Stripes, was seized as it lay along the French Bund. It is also said the Italian au- thorities have protested to the seizure of two vessels flying the Halian flag. William Hunt, steamship com- pany head here, made the first protest to the Consul General against the seizure. Hunt de- ! clared the Japanese naval men ! rough-housed the crew, then | deliberately pulled down the American flag and tossed it into the river. CA’I'HOI.IC ORPHANAGE BOMBED BY JAPANESE Ambassador said Japanese air bombs have destroyed the Catholic Orphanage at Kashing and killed 86 Chinese children. The French Ambassador also said 150 refugees, four French Sisters and five Chinese Sisters at the or- phanage are missing. CLOSING “OPEN DOOR" WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — The State Department has asked Con- sular representatives in China for information and report on the cus- toms rate. Reports have been received here it Japan has already started clos the “open door” to commercia cquality in China to all foreizn na .o - NANKING NOW PREPARED FOR JAPANATTACK Eight Gates Are Already Closed — No Reply Yet Made for Neutral Zone NANKING, Nov. 30—This former Chinese capital is preparing to meet the advancing Japanese Army. Eight of Nanking’s city wall gates are closed in preparation for the expected Japanese attack. The defenders have built sand- bag barricades and barbed wire en- tanglements at the other four gates. Meanwhile the International com- mittee continued to press the Jap- anese military command to reply to the week-old request for the cre- ation of a neutral safety zone within Nanking for civilians when the an- ticipated battle starts. TR i, SN SEATTLE CONTRACTOR A. W. Quist, Seattle contractor, disembarked from the steamer Yu- kon at Petersburg to survey the ex- tent of work required to rebuild the recently burned cny dock there. ordered in Federal Court today by Judge George F. Alexander and v.he‘ suit of Pete Loe against the two men concludéd. Loe had sued Iur! damages, holding that the mcn: were ‘responsible for an injury he| suffered while working aboard thel! Norland. In the original instance he asked for $40,000. —_————— MRS. REINKE RETURNS soon after.” Mrs. L. Reinke, manager of the Committee to have recommenda-| pejegate Dimond also said he and Vogue Shop, returned to Juneau tions for a long term territorial de- B. F. Heintzleman, Chairman of the aboard the Yukon following a briefvelopment program ready by De- Alaska Planning Council, are confi- business trip to Southeast Alaskancember 15. | dent the final report will be highly porl.s. Delegate Dimond said: “The rec- |desirable. Territorial Development Program Ready by Dec. 15 WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Alaska ommendations should be in the Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said hands of President Roosevelt by |he expected the National Resources | JA0UATY 1 and ready for Congress