The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK - - EMPIR | | | I “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7736. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FLOOD WATERS TURNED ON JAPANESE SEATTLE HAS NEW MAYOR, A. B. LANGLIE Conservative Chosen Over Vic Meyers by Over 30,000 Votes ALL PROPOSITIONS ARE THUMBED DOWN John C. Stevenson Defeat- ed for Membership, Port Commission SEATTLE, March 9.—Seattle’s un- predictable voters went conserva- tive by a big margin yesterday after several years of leftists tendencies when they elected Councilman Ar- thur B. Langlie to be Mayor to suc- ceed the fiery John F. Dore, defeat- ed in the recent primaries by Lang- lie and Victor A. Meyers. Langlie, who is 38 and who cam- paigned on a conservative platform, led Meyers by over 30,000. The vote given Langlie is 78,997 and the vote drawn by Meyers is 48,114, Mrs. F. F. Powell, John E. Carroll and Samuel J. Humes were elected to the City Council. John C. Stevenson, liberal Demo- crat and former gubernatorial can- didate, was beaten for the Port Commission by Commissioner Smith B. Wilson. | All proposed propositions were de- feated including the seaplane base. The three councilmen chosen were | elected by wide margins. They were grouped with Langlie on the Conservative ticket, Robert S. MacFarlane and John| B. Shorett were re-elected school directors. Mayor-Elect Langlie said he will ceek to balance the city budget and hopes to improve the transporta- tion system with busses, trackless trolleys and modernized street cars. Besides the seaplane base, the voters also rejected the three pla- toon system for the Fire Depart- ment, a special three mill levy to relieve the city’s financiel crisis and charter amendment providing ex- tension of civil service pension. TRAPPER GETS SIX COYOTES Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was | ligious tendencies. He said his wife - cation o Xa e bose! | E g of salaries ov ) [an occupant of the reviewing stand | put it in his pocket and he did not s gi i * | $20,000 w;s i s:c:‘:f,:l:‘llsnz?? hd‘:(_l form of joint control will be pro- ABUVE HAlNEs for the parade which was 12 miles‘ know what it was. V“Wf‘g renim v posed. long. Medical experts named by the Ye This after: The Islands of Canton and Ender- . 2 | s afternoon tk se tenta- 3 B .| Governors of five states were also| court, found that Maxim Gorky,| ‘W'@\“ } vy str\]r{( o :fleH:::;ing:::- berry are in the Phoenix group, Pson s |in the reviewing stand. | writer, his son, Maxim Pechkoff,| WS g\ . |tion's tax revision, bill the - pro. | °ccUPled by Hawalian parties land- Reports Biological Survey| Scented Bait Is Ef- ‘ fective Lure | Dan Sooter walked into the Al- aska Game Commission office to- day with a bale of fur for the commission’s approval that includ- ed six coyote skins for which Sooter | was given warrants for $20 apiece. | Sooter did his trapping in the| Haines country and reported cOy-| otes “thick” in that area. He also| reported that the United States| Biological Survey scented bait is- sued to coyote and wolf trappers,| “does the trick.” In addition to the coyotes, Sooter brought in one wolverine, 10 mink | (of which number coyotes ate two), | and one marten. W.C.T.U. WILL HEAR | DR. W. TORBET AT DUGOUT TOMORROW Dr. Walter Torbet will be the speaker at the luncheon-meeting of the Women’s Christian Temperance | Union at the American Legion Dug- out Thursday night. i The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m., and those who wish to partici—j pate in the luncheon are requested | to take their own sandwiches and| a “covered dish.” | People unable to attend the sup- per, but who wish to hear Dr. Tor- bet, are requested to be at the| Dugout by 8 o'clock when he is| scheduled to speak. Dr. Torbet, who is western repre- | sentative of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is Injured in Wreck Maxine Gray Singer Maxine Gray, radio favor- ite, was among the 50 passengers injured when a Wabash railroad train rammed into a stalled truck at a crossing near Worth, Il The train was derailed, and the truck driver killed. Mother-in-La Day Celebrated In Tflas Tow Observance Draws Largest Crowd in 5 Years— First Lady There HALIBUT QU[)TA Where Death, Destruction Has Struck Sections of So. California CHINESE MAKE IN TWO AREAS | IS NOW RAISED Juneau Fishermen to Bene- fit—New Regulations Are Issued SEATTLE, March 9. — The In- ternational Fisheries Commission has announced million pound in- creases in the halibut quotas of thé North Pacific Area 2's quota is raised to 22.- 700,000 pounds and Area 3 to 25.- 300,000 pounds. Both areas are along the British Columbia and Guif of Alaska coasts Areas 1 and 4, from Willapa Har- bor on the Washington Coast south and Bering sea on the north have no quota limits, | The new regulations also prohibit | the taking ofs halibut in set nets | of any kind. | The halibut season opens April 1, | two weeks later than last year. , PRAYER FOUND, | SECRET POCKET MALIBU— COAST GUARD RESCUES MOVIE FOLK [ ? L. ! | PALATIAL FILM [ COLONY HOMES THREATENED > N\ % 503 //////// i /////// % R 7, SN HOLLYWOOD X4 ,, YoELE iy Vi m ~ ~ B LONG BEACH Wy, S OuPLAND @ pOMONA X s gt , O Ay SAN %ERNARD/I;}EJ' ORIVERSIDE OSANTA ANA TEN REPORTED DROWNED AS BRIDGE COLLAPSES The worst flood in the history of Southern California, in which ncarly 200 persons are dead and 10,000 homeless among a hundred rcom- Press map shows the territory hai OF TREASONER rdest hit. munities, and Los Angeles was isolated from the rest of the world even by radio communication during the flood's fury. The disaster was the result of unprecedented rains of torrential proportions. This Associated Moscow Trials Will GoSoon NAVY BOMBERS Route Taken by Missing Airliner SALARIES OVER to Secret Court Sessions MOSCOW, March 9.—A scribbled prayer was introduced yesterday as| further evidence of guilt against one ' of the 21 high Soviet officials on rial in Moscow who have confessed murder and treason a ' J . blood. inapuee of Gy Patrol Planes Leave This dramatic incident and fur- South This Morning. ther confessions with regard to four . bizarre medical murders, ended the Nonstop Flight examination of the defendants in e | open court and a secret court ses- SEATTLE, March 9.—Six Navy sion now follows. Patrol Bombers of Squadron 17, The prayer was found in a secret under Lieutenant Commander John pocket of former Commissar of For- Perry, hopped off from Sand Point cign Trade, A. P. Rosengoltz, when at 6:30 o'clock this morning on a| he was arrested. proposed nonstop flight to Sitka,| The Prosecutor said the prayer Alaska, weather permitting. The said: “May God be resurrected and | bombers are carrying 40 men. AMARILLO, Texas, March 9. — | his enemies be smitten by arrows The squadron will replace Squa-| The largest crowd in its history|of his faithful servants.” dron 16 which is due to leave Sitka' jammed this town yesterday on| Rosengoltz quailed visibly in the for the south tomorrow, weather Mother-In-Law Day. | The observance of the day was the largest since Gene Howe, pub- | lisher, originated the day five vears| ago to promote better relations be- | tween in-laws. e ML U e SCHUSCHNIGG T0 BEAT NAZI IN PLEBISCITE Cagey Voting Plan Will Eliminate German In- fluence on Question BULLETIN — INNSBRUCK, Austria, March 9.—Chancellor Schuschnigg late today called for an Austrian National plebis- cite for March 13 to determine the strength behind the big fight for Austrian independence. Austrians will be asked to vote whether they are satisfied with the present Government’s pro- | gram. 1 VIENNA, March 9. — Chancellor | Kurt Schuschnigg is reliably re-| ported to be planning a referendum | to win a mandate for his resistance of Germany's Nazi encroachment. Semi-official quarters said a ple-- French Cabinet | face of this evidence as to his re- permitting. and Vyacheslaff Menzhinsky, once | head of the Secret Police, had suf-| uF MASUNS Tu fered from treatments administered by three eminent physicians who HEAn MEETINGq are accused of their murders. | . e e . UNlnN STENUG | Thirty-third Anniversary of DF SEATTLE Is | Lodge to Be Observed Here Monday | Observing the thirty-third anni- | | versary of the Mount Juneau Lodge, |No. 147, F. and AM., Masons of' | Gastineau Channel are meeting next s Monday evening for thewr annual Pretty Girl Is Arrested in|Past Masters night. . | Held each year on the Monday Texas for Stealin g meeting date falling closest to March ¢ | 14, date of origin of the Lodge, the LaborUmonFunds !gatherl.ng this year falls on the | exact date, just 33 years after the EL PASO, Tex., March 9—Pretty | o ipina) granting of the charter Dorothy Irene Oshorne, 22, former |, ~gq5 stenographer of the Seattle Ware- | : 2 housemen’s Union, has been arrest- Homer Nonling il be ihcharge = A ot d with the theft of the evening, and all positions will ed here and charged with the theft | e fi11ed by Past Masters of the Gas- of $1,000 of the union's funds. | yineay Channel district. i Miss Osborne admitted she spec- | All Masons of the Channel are to ulated and also said she wanted | pe pregent and the officers will con- to make payments on her car. | fer third degree. Miss Osborne will be returned to! ' Seattle. She was arrested crossing the line into Mexico. Tu ENRULL ccc Resigns Tonight JO TR Q00TA g g | WASHINGTON, March 9. — The | Civilan Conservation Corps an- PARIS, March 9—Premier Ca- nounces it will enroll approximately biscite might be held within eight mille Chautemps’' Cabinet will re-}55,000 men during April to bring days on the Schuschnigg plan under | sign tonight, says Deputy Albert| the total strength to the authorized which only Austrians over 24 years Serol, Vice-President of the Social-| 260,000. ey BIG- CREEK X N Map shews route flown by the missing TWA airliner, enroute to Albuquerque, N.M., via Los Angeles from San Francisco. The huge transport had been rerouted through Burbank because of weather conditions, but was forced to turn back, seeking an emergency landing at Bakersfield when ice began to form on its wings over the Tehachapi Mountains. Nine persons were aboard the plane. U. 8. Foreign Diplomats Are Put on Spot, Taken F()r Ri(le But Come BaCk‘Secretary Hull to Send Ne- By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 9. — The State Department was simply get- ting along fine with its request for Congress to add a little to the budget, when up came the case of ambling Joseph E. Davies. Foreign service employees are allowed 60 days leave each year if nothing interferes to upset their plans—such as war or ‘a peace con- ference. The political ambassadors and ministers — those appointed outside the career foreign service averaged 40 days leave last year. The career ministers took an aver- age of 33 days. Davies who married heiress Mar- Jorie Post Hutton was detailed to the committee. He went to Moscow January 19, 1937, said officers of the State Department appearing before the committee, and during the year was absent from his post 199 days. Regular leave accounted for 43 days, time in transit 30 days, official business (he toured a num- ber of European capitols) 89 days. On top of that he took 37 days leave without pay. WASHINGTON, March 9. — The House has compromised on pub- licizing corporate salaries voting into the tax bill, now being debated, an amendment directing the Secretary of Treasury to publish salaries in excess of $75,000. The House last year voted to re- peal the salary publicity law. President Roosevelt recently said: “There is no valid reason for re- peal.” Amendments requiring the publi- posed surtax on family owned and closely held *corporations. The vote was 180 to 142. This controversial item in the measure has thus been defeated in. the initial attempt to make it stand. Administration forces said they will demand another vote before the House ballots on final passage of the bill. A coalition of Republicans and Democrats passed the amendment striking the levy from the bill. TRADE TREATY WITH TURKEY T0 BE MADE gotiators to For- eign Nation | WASHIUGTON, March 9.—Secre- | tary of State Cordell Hull said he will send negotiators to Turkey to arrange for a trade treaty. This is the first time experts have been sent to a foreign Capital. Seventeen other treaties have al- ready been negotiated from Wash- ington T s May Take Tom (Mooney Before “Put that in the Record in de- . tailed form,” said Representative Cal. l.egulnlure McMillan of South Carolina, “be- — NEW MOVE T0 STOPINVADERS Dynamite Dikes at Certain Points Along Yel- low River 'MANY OF NIPPON FORCES DROWNED Tanks Engaged in Making Charge Are Also Re- ported Crippled SHANGHAI, March 9 — The Chinese today blasted the dikes and hoped by the subsequent flood to check the Japanese Army's drive into the vast fer- tile area south of China's mean# dering Yellow River. The new tactics were used against 900 Japanese with 20 tanks who crossed the Yellow River at Szeshui, 25 miles west of the strategic railway junction at Chengchow in Honan Pro- vince. Many of the Japanese force drecwned and tanks crippled when the dikes were blown up. Flood waters are reported to have spread over the country- side. — e —— GREAT BRITAIN 77 ST5000 ARE TO . BE MADE pugLig WANTS CONTROL e o T OF PACIFIC ISLES g ‘ ey ey Mesctire Ambassador Told by Pre- mier to Give Informa- tion to U. S. A. LONDON, March 9.—Premier Ne- ville Chamberlain today told the House of Commons that Sir Ronald Lindsay, Ambassador to the United States has been instructed to in- form the United States that Great Britain “reserves her right over the islands of Canton and Enderberry.” The Premier said proposals will be submitted in hopes to end the controversy and it is believed some ed by a United States Coast Guard. Previously the islands had been treated as British Territory by the British Goverryment. The United States Government recently an- nounced it would take possession of many Islands in the Pacific hav- ing fitness for air bases. The ma- jority of islands have always been considered American, it is said. - e — HOT TIME FOR JOHN L. LEWIS STARTS ACTION OAKLAND, Cal, March 9. — The Alameda County Industrial Labor Council of the CIO is to seek a courtmartial of Gov. *Charles H. Martin of Oregon for the remark that John L. Lewis will “get a warm reception if he comes to Oregon.” Council Secretary E. E. Ward said the Governor is a retired Army Ma- jor General and a Reserve Officer, hence is subject to Court Martial. Ward said the Council will petition President Roosevelt and Army of- ficials for action on charges of in- citing violence. Crandsm of FOR Il with Mumps PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. March 9.— \ \ % . f age will be allowed to vote. ist Bloc and Chamber of Deputies —_———— “What,” jve cause if it is important enough for| SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal., f his headquarters in | © P " asked Representative d i ;’L,f";'f:,‘,’cm'é’“‘ i 3 All will be asked, “Are you in member. I COUGHLIN IS BACK Bacon of Old Westbury, New York, Us to have an ambassador in Mos- March 9.—Warden Curt Smith said Wiliam Donner Roosevelt, five- ‘ s i SRR LD B favor of Austrian independence and Serol said the Premier decided to| —— “is the situation with respect to COW it is important enough to leave he will request a formal ruling from year-old grandson of President | BUILD SITKA HOME sovereignty?” | resign when the majority of the S8o-| Robert Coughlin, Clerk of the our A 2 him stay at the post. the Attorney General before taking Roosevelt is ill with the mumps. ug! mbassador to Moscow? Tom Tilson, Jr., Sitka merchant, is visiting in Juneau and making arrangements for building a new home in Sitka. The age limit is for the purpose cialist and Communist deputies in- | Court, who has been south for sev-| of excluding youths among whom dicated they are hostile to Chau- eral weeks on his annual vacation, | the Nazis have conducted an ex-|temps’ demands for power to diregt| returned to Juneau aboard the tensive campaign. | the French finances by decree. l“mh Sea. “How is it that our Ambassador to Moscow is on leavé so much of | the time?” ! And thus the case of Ambassador| Ty e ! Thomas J. Mooney before the State SALARY MATTERS | Legislature as requested yesterday “we will take up now the items by a resolution passed by the State (Continued on Page Seven) } Assembly. ‘The youngster’s mother, Mrs. Eli- zabeth Donner Windsor, divorced Elliott Roosevelt in 1934 and later ! married Curtin Windsor ¥ 4