The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1938, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1938. THE VOL. LI, NO. 7695. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ENT OFFERS ALASKAPLAN PRESID AMER VESSEL FLYING OLD GLORY IS TAKEN ON SEAS Nantucket Chief Escorted by Two Warships to Rebel Base EMBASSY OFFICIALS NOTIFY U. S. ADMIRAL Two Departments Will In- struct as to Taking Definite Action PARIS, Jan. 20.—Informa- tion stating the American| tanker Nantucket Chief has| been seized by two Spanish | Insurgent warships off Bar-| celona has been forwarded hyj the United States Embassy | here to Rear Admiral Henry | Lackey, commanding the Am- erican Naval forces in Euro- pean waters. Embassy officials said the! tanker has arrived at Palma, Insurgent base on the Mallor-| ra-Balearic Islands, escorted | 1 BOGUE PRAISES i | ol and Mrs. Robert Guggenheim a lourth marriage. The bride is the Lennep, member of an seizure, between the Insur- ropean Fleet is aboard the up, Chamber Told and also State Department at ed the largest Chamber of Com-| : N This was the news brought to the; ries an American crew. tended the Seattle gathering. | had left a marked impression on all 4 iportunity for industrial development Craft Is Received HONOLULU, H. L, Jan. 20—All 'Bogye reported. The Embassy officials stat- ings” . concerning the ship’s gents and American Govern- The Commander of the Eu-; al in Settling Ship Tie- cruiser Raleigh at Genoa and, Within one hour aiter Joseph Ken-| from the Navy Department sador to Great Britain, had address-| , e merce meeting ever held in Seattle, Washington, D.C. the American flag and car- up in Seattle had been settled. Juneau Chamber of Commerce to- —— WHEGKABE uF Marshal in that district, who at- " Mr. Bogue told the Chamber Isensible” talk made by Mr. Kennedy |who heard him regardless of politi- | Kennedy pointed to the great op- All that IsFound of Samoan ¥¢"ne¢Y PO s A |and advancement on the Pacific in Honolulu ‘mon goal which will benefit all, that is left of the Samoan Clipper The Deputy Marshal brought the here in a small box, 3 feet by 1iyoyarq getting hospitalization for drift, smoke bomb rack, part of a in the community of 1800 which E D th h 1500 during the summer season. He p y ;mg to Craig tonight on the North- day were Lieut. Michael Lynch, fi PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 20.—How- sistant, Lieut. Brooks, and Geurgei when a heavy water tank, falling, Lynch gave an outline of the work| struck a davenport on which the two! In discussing the budget, lhe; Cash lost two teeth and the boy bration as is the usual procedure.: The first wireless distress signal Chamber would not sponsor a ed that the American Consul at Palma will “handle all deal- ment, aided by Admiral A8 3 | Lackey. [Maritime Head Instrument- he ,wl," also ‘recewe' it is said, nedy, head of the Maritime Com- definite actions to be taken mission and now appointed Ambas- . lon the need for labor and capital| The Nantucket Chief flies to get together, the recent ship tie- day by Arthur Bogue, prominent resident of Craig and Deputy U. S.| members at their luncheon in Ber- |ey’s Cafe today that the “sound, IN SMAI'L Bux'cal affiliation and was warmly re- —_— |ceived by Seattle business men. Mr. I‘Coasl and demanded that labor and business men get together on a com- plane which crashed in flames near ypanys of his district to the Juneu Pago Pago eight days ago, arrived!chamber for the work it had done foot . i the west coast area and pointed out The box contained bits of veneer! 1o great need for the hospital work navigating table and bits of me“"-‘,grows to a population of 3,000 to 3- - e |arrived from Seattle on the Baranof |after a month Outside and is return- in land. arruw argl“ Other guests of the Chamber to- cal agent for the CCC, and his as- ard Cash and his 11-year-old son'Bolyan, pioneer Alaskan and min- escaped serious injury last night ing operator near Chichagof. Lieut. | from an adjacent tower, crashed of CCC disbursement in the Terr through the roof of the Cash home, tory. L Jd were sitting, carried it through the Chamber decided not to set aside floor into the basement. $500 for the Fourth of July cele- was badly shaken. In taking the action, it was explain- >-oo—— ed that it did not mean that the from a ship at sea was sent Au.]!‘ourth of July celebration in some gust 11, 1909. other way. » -Copper King Weds Fburthr A "a., shortly after their marriage on board. It was Col. Guggenheim’s JAPAN THREAT AGAINST BRIT, STALLED OFF | Eight Hundred and Fifty Fighting Men Prepar- ed for Attack “MISUNDERSTANDING” NIPPON STATEMENT Tientsin Crisis Averted for Time Being, Accord- ing to Reports SHANGHALI, Jan. 20.—British cir-! cles here have received word that| the Japanese forces at Tientsin ex-| plained as a “misunderstanding” the threat to invade the British conces- sion which could have meant an armed clash with the British forces | The First Lancashire Fusiliers, 850 fighting men, had stood ready to, repel the threatened invasion of the Japanese. | The Japanese, according to (he: British information here, warned| that they would enter the British| concession unless Chinese suspetied of anti-Japanese activities were ex-| pelled | The British forces waited the zero| hour, under orders to fight back, even though action might mean an- nihilation since the Japanese have thousands of men at Tientsin. | The supposed zero hour passed| and nothing occurred, although the| British are still keeping up a guard- ed vigil. ! The Chinese officials here x'(‘porl‘ |additional gains by Chiang Kai lShek'.s forces counter attacking in (the Yangtze River valley area. | On the seacoast, south of Shang- |hai, snow and sleet have halted! imost of the military operations and | lalso frustrated a Japanese air bom- {bardment. | Kidnaper-Slay re shown on their yacht at Miami, former Mrs. Rebecca Pollard van old Virginia family, PRODUCTION | FIGURES OF | METALS HIGH United States and Posses- sions Produce Near Record from Mines WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Gold production in the United States and possessions during the last r had aper-Slayer | . . . a record dollar value of $167,723,400. ue of the silver output also neared h , Charge of FBI's, | a peak level with an output of $55,-| 307,892, although that output \ exceeded in 1923. In spite of the| fact that the prices now paid for Manacled Pe!er Anders IS‘ the two metals are much higher, the 1915 total of 4,792,097 ounces of gold{ Taken on Mystenous and 63,812,176 ounces of silver, was Trip to Superior larger than the weight measure of | - 1937 | SUPERIOR, Wis, Jan. 20.—Don-| All of the metal produced WasS alq McRea, manager of the Androy| sold to the United States Treasury, Hotel, said J. Edgar Hoover, six as- whose prices of $35 an ounce for gold sociates and two manacled prison-| ond 71.77 cents an oz. for silver arelers spent the night in his hotel| highest in the world. The gold price here and left at 7 o'clock this morn-| will remain the same in 1938, but Sll-;ing for St. Paul. The FBI men| ver has been reduced to 6464 cents/gaye ng explanations. | an ounce. McRea studied the published pic-| & W o G jtures of Peters Anders, confessed| GEURGE MARTIN |kidnaper and slayer of Charles| {Ross, also his accomplice, James, Body |Gray, and then said one of the man-| acled prisoners resembled Anders. Discovered in Gas- Filled Kitchen | NEW YORK, Jan. 20. — George Martin, 48, former newspaper and magazine editor, also editorial di- rector of the Rockefeller Center Weekly, was found dead this morn- ing in the gas filled kitchen of his apartment. The coroner has not de- termined whether it is a case of sui- cide or an accident. was MATTSON CASE REVIVED | TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 20.—Wil-| liam and Muriel Mattson, wn.ness-a o 4 'es to the kidnaping of their brother,| Of Edltonal Dlredor‘charles Mattson, have returned to! ‘;school after an absence of several| ;days. Dr. W. W. Mattson said they| iwere in the company of FBI agents land theorized the agents probably| took them in an attempt to connect| Anders with the kidnaping and slay-| iing of his little son. | - e HOWARD STABLE! FILES FOR SEAT | IN ALASKA SENATE Howard D. Stapler, Juneau attor-! ney and former District Attorney in this Division, today filed his declar- Rev. Charles C. Personeus of the ation of candidacy with the Federal Bethel Pentecostal Mission and Cap-'Clerk of Court on the Republican tain Stanley Jackson of the Salva- ticket for a seat in the Territorial tion Army returned today from at- Senate. It is the first filing for the tendance at the funeral of Adjutant one Senate seat open this year from Quick in Sitka, arriving here aboard this Division, the term of Senator the M.S. Northland. Henry Roden expiring. | RETURN FROM SITKA ICAN TANKER SEIZED, INSURGENTS Some Democrats at a Jackson Day Dinner President Roosevelt is shown shaking hands with William B. Bankhead, of Alabama, Speaker of the House, as Vice President Garner looks on ap, Day Dinner, in the course of which President %r ovingly. The picture was made at the Washington chkson oosevelt, citing “‘evils that flow from undue concentration.of economic power or unfair business practices,” asked for cooperation of business and the nation as a whole in working out corrective legislation. His Eyes Are on Albany Postmaster General Farley is shown with his arm around the shoulder ant United States Attorney General, at a | luncheon of Democratic bigwigs in New York City. Jackson announced he would accept the nomination for the governorship of New York in the next election. of Robert H. Jackson, As People of Dictatorship ‘ Nations Are Given Word Of Trouble by Roosevelt ESKIMO FUR STOLE SHOW IS PLANNED Distinctive Feature toMark Rendezvous at Anchor- age Next Month ANCHORAGE, Alas| 20.— An Eskimo fur stole show, the first of the kind in Alaska, will be held in Anchorage during the third an- nual Fur Rendezvous which takes place February 19 to February 22. Eskimo girls will be invited to model the latest Eskimo styles in parkas, mukluks, etc an CANNERY LEASE AT METLAKATLA UP TO SEC. INT, | By PRES ROVER WASHINGTON, van upon a time President Wilson, in declaring war on Germany, told the German people he was not making war upon thém but upon their guided rulers. It has gone down in the annals as! one of the smartest pieces of propa- ganda of the World War, a value| it could have without all dis-| counting its sincerity More than once President Roose- has gone back to Wilson precedents and in his message to Congress he appeared to go back there once again. In the first five minutes of his speech he suggest- ed to under dictatorship that perhaps their bosses were warlike for the public good He said this . “Disregard for treaty seems to have followed 20 Once at ubjects oo obligations the surface for|w Bureau of Indian Affairs Divided Between Two Firms Making Bid WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. The Bureau of Indian Affairs said they would submit recommendation to Secretary of Interior Ickes next week for the leasing of the Indian can- nery on Annette Island, Alaska. The cannery is owned by the Indian Cooperative organization at Metla- katla, on Annette Island and has been operated for the past five years by W. A. Pries, of Ketchikan Pries paid 50 percent of the prof- its to the Indians and at the ex- piration of the lease, submitted a bid, at a Juneau hearing, offering 76 percent of the profits for an- other five year lease, The Marlyn Fish Company bid offered 75 per cent of the profits and offered to establish a fresh fish business to provide year-around employment to the cannery workers and Metlakatla citizens Bureau of Indian Affairs officials said they were divided over who should receive the contract. TAIL PIECES OF WRECKED AIR CRAFT WANTED Parts of Liner that Crashed in Montana Missing at Scene BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 20.—The Northwest Airlines has offered a re- ard for the recovery of any of the missing tail pieces of the passenger plane which crashed in the Bridger Mountains near here on January 10 with the loss of all occupants. Company officials said the “upper half of each rudder of each of the two upper vertical stabilizers appear missing from the wreckage The parts are wanted for evidence at the Department of Commerce trend away from the democratic|hearing now under way representative It would seem, therefore, (Continued on Page Four) form of quvl'l'xlml'nl; that| An experiment is under way near Pleasanton, Calif,, to determine if flax will grow in the locality ROADS, TRAILS, AIR SERVICE, FISH STRESSED | Regional Planning Forms Backbone of Program— No Forced Development : FISHERIES PROTECTION INCLUDES JAP INVASION Simplification of Territor- 1al Taxation System Recommended i | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.— |President Roosevelt today [transmitted to Congress his program for a long range de- |velopment of Alaska. Region- ‘:ll planning formed the back- ’lmne of the plan which was drafted by the National Re- |sources Commiltee at the re- quest of Congress. The recommendations |cluded: | Simplification of the Terri- torial government’s taxation lsystems; construction of roads and tra xpansion of the air service; protection of salmon fisheries and improve- |ment of labor conditions. in- Th2 committee held that regional plahning was essential to orderly de- |velopment because it would be a “long time problem” and the “plan would have to change to suit chang- ing social conditions.” Against Forced Development The committee report added that studies disclosed that national in- terest did not demand forced de- velopment of Alaska nor was there impetative need for costly develop- ment programs. It said: “There is no pressure of popula- |tion or lack of raw materials or trade in the United States that de- Imand exceptional measures.” See No Agricultural The Committge also discounted |the future of Alaska as an agricul- |tural country, at least until more industries are developed. In the llatter category the committee saw | possibilities for pulp and paper plants but did not recommend build- ing of railroads or first class high~ |ways “for the anticipated future need prior to formulation of gen- eral plans for development of the Territory.” | In calling for preservation of the salmon fisheries and protection of “peculiar and important American interests therein,” the committee |took notice of the current dispute |between Japan and the United (Continued on Page Three.) COMPTROLLER " OF CURRENCY QUITS OFFICE J. F. T. O'Connor Resigns ! to Seek Democratic Nom- ination for Governor WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. — The White House today announced the resignation of J. F. T. O’Connor, Comptroller of Currency. The White House statement says President Roosevelt asked that the resignation not become effective un- til April 1. O’Connor, Los Angeles attorney, is |expected to seek the Democratic |nomination for Governor of Cali= fornia. He said in his letter con- taining his resignation as_Comp-~ jtroller, that he wished to return to his home state and “take care of pressing matters there®