The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1938, Page 1

4 THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE % e VOL. LL, NO. 7725. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938. SMALL BOAT IS BLASTED AND BURNED Hurry Up With Television! MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CLOSED SEASON ON FUR.ASKED OF COMMISSION Game Men Report Strong AIR RAIDS ON JAPAN ARE THREATENED Blaze On Waterfront; 2-Alarm Fire Sounded 12 Hurt in $500,000 Massachusetts Blaze TWELVE CHINA - BOMBERS ROAR- . OUT ON ATFACK Fleet Repoa Last Night Abel Kos[l)(eythNarri}vl)l' Es- | Sentiment Against Reg- Over Yellow Sea Bound son Wrecks Cralt " istered Trap Lines for Nippon Land o e ‘ 5 Follro!wing a p\;blllc_h}:nrlng y;ster; wARNlNGS—-AT‘E ISSUED | day afternoon at which a number o 5 FLAMING GASOLINE Alaskans appeared to give sugges- ENEMY FAILS TO ARRIVE IS THROWN ABOUT| ions relative to game control, the Alaska Game Commission, meeting n annual session here, said today Naval Ofiic;:Express Be- | hat a preponderance of sentiment | has been presented the Commission Small Craft and Adjacent | lief They Turned Back Wharves Threatened | for Brief Period A gasoline explosion aboard & gashoat at the Upper City Float early this morning severely burned Abel Koskey, owner of the craft, threatened numerous boats nearb, with destruction and adjacent dock and was cause for the first two alarm fire in mcre than a year in Juneau. Koskey had loaded his 36 foot troll- er with 1,000 galions of drum gaso- line and four bales of hay, pre- paratory to returning to Funter Bay. He was building a fire early this morning in the boat and had opened | the coor aft to let out possible fumes. | After waiting what he felt was a sufficient length of time, he struck a match. 1 Scatters Burning Gasoline The resultant explosion awoke most of downtown Juneau, splii the bow cof the craft, blew its cabin roof off and scattered burning gas- oline over a wide area. An alarm was rung immediately | < | From movie to radio isThe trail of Nan Grey, young, player of dra- matic roles. Miss Grey, who was one of the stars in “Three Smar¢ | Girls”, now is taking parts on chain programs. | to the fire department at 6:20, fol- t i lowed by another alarm five min-| e METZGAR FINDS | FAITH VOICED | - BY BUSINESS Shortly after the first explosion there was another more spectacular blast as a gasoline drum burst with a deafening roar to send a column of black smoke shooting high in the air. Quick action by small boat own- ers at the float and the presence of mind of Koskey, saved the fleet from destruction or serios 5 N Serlous damage. |Recession Concern Over- shadowed by Feeling that Stabilization Will Come | mooring lines, loose. Oscar Lund-| | strom, wakened by the exploslon,i While there is some concern in started the engine on his Swallow the States over the recession of and herded small craft on the in- business, particularly in the centers side of the float where Koskey’s boat |Of specialized industry where un- was burning, to a safe retreat in employment immediately becomes a the corner of the basin. Tom Smith Problem, there is generally a faith started the Yakobi and pulled sev- €Xistent that business will stabilize Cuts Craft Loose Koskey leaped from his blasted eral craft out into the harbor. itself with prices probably on a craft immediately after the first| explosion and began cutting his ‘ After an hour and ten minutes of lower scale, L. H. Metzgar, General |, fighting gasoline flames that ran under docks, across floats and over| ‘ boats, the fire was extinguished. | Koskey’s Burns Koskey's burns were described by Dr. L. P. Dawes as “first degree,”| but boatmen today were marvelling that Koskey was alive after such a terrific explosion. “It didn't even knock me down,”! said Koskey. £ Oil drums, bales of hay and mis- cellaneous wreckage were scattered for 100 yards around. Koskey's boat, valued at approximately $2,500, is a total loss. Two boats moored nearby were badly scorched. One belonged to John Figimere, and the other to Jack Wilson. GREAT BRITAIN FILM WORKERS RAIDCOMMONS | Protest to Movie Bill—Not Sufficient Against Hol- lywood Competition LONDON, Feb. 24—Two thousand film. workers stormed the House of Commons last night in a lobby against the protective British Movie Bill The movie bill as proposed is considered too weak to stem the| flood of Hollywood competition, L Superintendent of the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company, told members of the Chamber of Com- merce at their weekly luncheon this noon in Percy's Cafe. In tbe mining industry, the Su- perintendent said, prices are oft and in some places there has been curtailment mostly in wages, but most operators, he found, are go- ing ahead much in the normal way, feeling that stabilization, while it may take some time, will come about in due course. George V. Beck, Superintendent | of Schools at Petersburg, teld the business men that the big problem before education today is to teach students to meet the rapidly chang-| ing conditions. “We must educate our children not alone for the problems of today but for 20 years from now,” he said. “Science and invention has moved far ahead of education, and the| problem today is to reach out for a philosophy of education which will meet these changing conditions which we see every day.” An interesting summary of de- fense measures now being taken for the Pacific Coast was given by R. E. Robertson, who recently return- ed from the south. While in Se- attle, he said, he had opportunity to talk to several high naval and military men who pointed out that wide interest was centering in de- fense measures now due to the un- rest and actual warfare existing in the Orient and Spain. He learned, he said, that full defense plans for the Pacific Coast were now worked out to meet an attack and that these were being elaborated upon as re: (Continued on Page Three) 650 Homes Are - Destroyed by | Fire_inEgynh Twenty - three Persons Are| Known to Be Dead— Others Are Missing | CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 244—T'WentY" three persons are known to be dead | and others are feared lost in 2 fire | which swept four villages in lower Egypt, destroying 650 homes. BIP SRIIG I | Train Derald | 2 cre!qmn Dead Ten Passengers Injured in Accident During Night in Louisiana | | SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Feb. 24—Two trainmen were killed and 10 passengers injured whena south- bound Kansas City and Southern | passenger train was derailed during the night. The derailment occurred about 58 miles north of here. Wrecking crews, doctors and| nurses were rushed to the scene| immediately the report was Te-| | ceived. —— TR e A e e oy A, | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Feb. 24. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 11%, American Cen 89%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 337%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4z, General Mo- | tors 36%, International Harvester 68%, Kennecott 40, New York Cen- tral 18%, Southern 'Pacific 19%, United States Steel 55%, Cities Ser- vice 1%, Pound $5.01%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are fodsy’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 130.85, j rails 30.05, utilities 20.07, . | up the supply. | favoring a closed season on all fur | bearing animals in an effort to build The Commissioners said that rep- | resentations from v us parts of | the Territory indicated a strong sen- | iment in that direction, but that| hus far they were still studying the problem and had not yet made thei | recommendations which will go di-| rect to Washington for approval They also pointed out that there was strong opposition to the sug- gestion made by some trappers that a system of registered trap lines be established. While there was some | sentiment from Ketchikan for the registered line, which would mean leasing a trap line to the trapper, the general sentiment which has reached ihem has been against it, they said. The Commission expects to com-| plete its delibérations here by next | Monday, and have its report ready for submission to the Survey, it was announced. AUSTRIA FIGHTS WITH UNITED PEOPLE'S FRONT Unified Austrians BattlingI for Their Freedom, Independence Biological VIENNA, Feb. 24. — Chancellor, | Kurt Schuschnigg today explained| in a fiery speech in Reichstag Hall | the Austrian republic’s new relations with Germany. ‘The Austrian government is “di- | recting all its efforts” towards Aus-| tria’s freedom and independence, | declared Schuschnigg. “The question of our actual exis- | tence is involved,” said the Chan- When Coming Heralded = eavy cranes used on the docks of the Inside Is Given on ‘Big Steel’ Signing New Scale with CIO; 2 2 ¢ 2 There’s Little ‘Escape Clause RADIU RUBUT | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — Best ;nvaflable explanation in these parts for the “escape clause” in the con- BALI.OUN UP tract between John L. Lewis and | “Big Steel” is that the CIO leader had to leave the steel company a y | way out in event of a price war with | “Little Steel.” i | Now to go back a year. It was in ¢ the spring of 1937 when Lewis Record ,Altltude ReaChedillabbergaswd the industrial and at Fairbanks—Tem- |1abor world by coming out with a | wage and bargaining agreement peraturesRecorded | Jii¥ yrited states (Big) Steel. 1t never had been done before and FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 24.—|cuen while the secret conferences The Weather Bureau's radio robot|are in progress “Big Steel” offi- balloon has ascended 60,000 feet| i )< were declaring they never or 11 2/5 miles above the earth. |youiq surrender to union bargain- The instruments showed a ground ing. the Lynn Gas and Electric Company’s plant at Lynn, Mass., is toppling over in the fire which ravaged the docks and caused damage to the plant estimated at more |, t.ot o0 the Chinese airmen re- million dollars. Twelve persons were reported injured, nine of them firemen. Some of the latter fell from the blazing structure into the icy waters below. TOKYO, Feb. 24—All aviation and naval units of Southwestern Japan are alert against Chinese air raids after a large area of the Jap- | anese homeland felt the dread and thrill of air attack warnings which continued for several hours. Twelvé big enemy bombing planes, escorted by fast pursuit planes, were reported 6:10 p.m. Pacific Coast time yesterday as roaring over the China Sea to carry the war to Ja- pan. Formal air raid warnings were | issued but the enemy failed to ar- | rive. Japanese Naval officers expressed turned to their base when apparent | coming was known. [ Scores of Japanese ships roared } out from Japanese bases to meet the | threat. GEN. PERSHING NOW REPORTED - AS IMPROVING Physicians E;k for Ult- mate Recovery, Barring Unforeseen Setback BULLETIN — TUCSON, Feb. 24.—Gen. Pershing “is definite- ly weaker and somewhat apa- thetic, dangerously near death” as anxious physicians this af- ternoon worked desperately to preserve his waning strength. | Doctors are silent concerning | the earlier reports the General ‘ AIRDROMES RAIDED BY JAPANESE SHANGHAI, Feb. 24—Japanese war planes raided Chinese air- dromes on the southeast China Coast in search for the base from ‘whlch the Chinese yesterday bom- | barded the Island of Formosa. The Japanese struck for the first | time at the Chinese airfield at Foo Chow, Fukien Province Capital, op- posite the northern tip of Formosa. The Japanese also raided the air- field at Lishui, Chekiang Province, to the north. | Japanese planes took to the air |from here when it was reported Chinese planes were heard over the Shanghai area. | - e——— MOBILIZATION ’ CHINESE | was on the road to recovery barring an unforeseen setback. TUCSON, Arizona, Feb. 24 —Rela- | tives and friends of Gen. John J. Pershing are heartened today by | cellor. “We have banded together to temperature of 11 degrees above seek a solution to our troubles and |Zr0 and a temperature of 41 de- for this special task, our Comum_\lgreels below zero at the 60,000 foot | level. tion recognizes no parties, and no| s X state. It is based on the principle | Officials said the altitude is one of the professional guild and the|©°f the highest ever reached by a robot balloon. people therefore must have no po-| litical coalitions or administrative B g AT s GOV. CHANDLER L] IS CANDIDATE, U.S. SENATOR “What we Austrians want cannot and must not be designated by poli- tical concerts whether they are red, Chief Executive of Ken- tucky Will Have Bark- ley as Opponent black, brown, or green, or whether | or not they are right or left. It is| not a party bound People’s front, but is a single compact front of the people in all brackets of our social strata and guild.” Thunderous applause greeted the fiery Chancellor so frequently that his fifteen minute speech was dragged out to an hour. | NEWPORT, Kentucky, Feb. 24— Gov. Albert B. Chandler today formally announced he is a candi- date for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator. | INSURBENTS ON WAY SOUTH TO | . | Barkley. Blocked Temporarily in| ngfifigflsfi(fl){{:fislAND Pass of Escando by | Govt. Barricades | Lindtner Skete, prominent local HENDAYE, Pranco - Spanish | halibut fisherman, is returning to Frontier, Feb. 24.—According to re- | Juneau aboard the Northland next ports received here, the Insurgents week, having completed several are fighting their way down the | weeks of study at college in Walla | Sagun to Highway, southeast of Ter- | Walla. uel and have laid seige to the| He and Mrs, Skeie, nurse at St. mountain pass of Escandon. There | Ann’s Hospital, are to make their are strong Government barricades home on Star Hill. Mr. Skeie has in the pass barring the route to been in the south for the past three the Mediterranean seacoast. Jand a half>months, “Little Steel,” represented by such units as Eugene Grace's Bethlehem Steel, and Tom Girdler’s Republic Steel, said little publicly but it is well known that officials of “Little Steel” swore fluently in private They felt “Big Steel” had staged a fast first act. . .o CLAIMS ‘LITTLE STEEL' “Little Steel” has disadvantages in competition with “Big Steel,” the major one of which is location. The various companies known as “Little Steel” are for the most part located inland, lacking cheaj water routes to bring in their ore and for shipping out finished steel. But they manage to survive very well. The reason is, they claim that their workers are super-skilled and loyal. The argument is advanced that if “Little Steel” permitted its labor forces to unionize, efficiency would drop and it would thus lose its principal advantage over “Big Steel.”” Perhaps the issue is de- batable but that is “Little Steel's” position. Barely was the contract with “Big Steel” signed last winter than CIO began its bloody battle to union- ize “Little Steel,” which ended in defeat. “Little Steel” increased wages, but signed no contract. To “Little Steel” it looked like a plot. Now comes the time for “Big Steel” to renew its contract with Lewis. Administration spokesmen | have urged industry to cut prlces' without cutting wages. Industry' protests the idea is hazardous, if | not impossible, since labor is a| major cost item. Yet it is evident that some place | along the line industry will mnkei an effort to break the log-jam by (Continued on Page Seven) the reports of attending physicians. The doctors said the former com- | mander of the AEF in the World e War will recover from his present UproarousRebellion Breaks illness, barring an unforeseen set- . back. | Out in Lower House, ‘The physicians’ report said Gen.; Parllamen! Pershing is now in no immediate | danger but has suffered acute dam- TOKYO, Feb. 24—The National age to heart muscles which Will | ygopivizetion Bill to give the Japan- require a projonged rest in bed. | ese Government broad wartime con= lives and property of citizens, ‘brought a bitter uproarious rebel- | lion in Parliament today. P | Members of the lower House | howled for Foreign Minister Hirota to answer questions by Takao Sa- | to, legal expert. Members of the lower House, op- | posing the bill, argued that it is unconstitutional. LOTTERY CHARGE PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 24—|eq to have Maho Taki, President of James R. Cox, who once led & the planning Board, answer the hunger march on.Washington, D.| guestions but the members of the C. has been Indicted with House shouted him down and. the others on charges of conspiracy Wispeaker called for a recess to quell use the United States mails In | the gisorder. furtherance of a lottery. | Later, Justice Minister Shiono re- T | plied for the Government and then UMBRELLA BLOWS |a new disturbance developed before OVER Hospl-r A.L the House adjourned overnight. TWO YOUTHS It's just another story of Juneau wind, but to Miss Thais Bayers it means the loss of a prized blue um- brella which was last seen blowing | high over the roof of St. Ann's Hos- | pital, tossed in the path of a furi- | ~ DEAD, CRASH Going home for lunch, Miss Bay- | SANTA MONICA, Cal., Feb. 2¢.— er was tugging at her umbrella|Tom Joy, 21, of Detroit, Michigan, when the wind blew it wrong side and James Clark, 22, of Pasadena, out, and while she reached to grab|crashed to death in Joy's light her purse the umbrella was blown lopen cockpit monoplane after tak- out of her hand and over “the wp:"lnx off from Clover Field,