The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 30, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EM VOL. LI, NO. 7781. HEAVY FIGHTING, CHINA T Plans to Grapple for Soviet “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1938. T FAIRBANKS MEN . Plane, Missing Since August, 'FLYING HERE FOR © Believed Crashed in Aret Ic POINT BARROW, Alaska, April 30.—J. W. (Jack) Smith, trader. says he has enough tackle and small boats to raise the missing Soviet plane in July if the craft is found near Thetis Island. Smith quots an Eskimo woman as caying she “saw it with a telescope. It looked like a big motorboat.” NEW HOTEL BE BUILT HERE BY BUSINESS MEN J. J. Meherin and Wallis.: George Announce Plans ‘ for $500,000 Structure Juneau will have a new half million dollar hotel before the end of the year, according to the announcement made today by J. J. Meherin and Wallis George, who with other Juneau business men are heading the venture. The name of the hotel will be “The Baranof.” Options have been secured for a full half block of Juneau preperty en which will be con- structed the new six-story apartment-hotel. The lower floor will be devoted to business preperty and a hotel lobby, two i | | | | \ 1 tain 100 transient rooms. It is planned that The Bar- anof will be the finest and most mcdern hctel in Alaska. In 2 statement from Meherin | and George, they predicted that | werk would start on construe- tion before June 1, and the hotel will be ready for occu- pancy December 1. Mcre complete details regard- ing the location and plans for the new hotel will be made within the next two weeks, ac- cording te¢ Mr. Meherin. SENATE GROUP APPROVES FUR Various Eskimos reported seeing an object hit the waves two or three | times, then disappear a few miles off the coast with a big splash. Smith said he saw oil covered | water in the area week later. Thi: | was last August when the Soviet| plane with six men aboard dropped | from sight on a projected flight from Mescow to Fairbanks. : )Capital in-Spri Along the Potomac Springtime in the capital is her- | alded by an outburst of magnolia blossoms which provide a charm- ing background for pretty Ruth Foster who is silhouetted against the stately dome of the capitol in the background. AIR MAIL EVENT Sheldon to Join in Cele- bration Here Tuesday Mayor Nerland and Robert | | Mayor Leslie Nerland of Fair-| sanks and Rok E. Sheldon, Presi- lent of the Fairbanks Chamber of| will take part in the selebration here Tuesday of the irst air mail flight and are leav- ng by plane tomorrow from the In-| erior city for Juneau, according to| wdivees to The Empire. Mr. Sheldon expects to go back to! Fairbanks on the flight Tuesday but; | Mayor Nerland probakly will remain | sver for a week conferring with Ter- | ftorial " officials on matters con- erning Fairbanks, such as PWA, | | 2CC and other projects. | Invitation to the Fairbanks of-| | ticials was extended by the Juneau| Chamber of Commerce which has| | charge of the celebration here. It/ is planned to broadcast the affair| | yver a nation-wide hookup with the | isiting officials well as Gov | John W. Troy and local officials taking part. | Present plans &all for school to be | | dismissed during the hours of the| clebration and it is expected that virtually everyone in Juneau will be {at the Pacific Alaska Airways air- [ nort. According to the present chedule the program will start at [11:45 am. Tuesday and will last ntil 12:30 pm e - Mail Are Sold ~ Qut; Fairbanks o8 PROCLAMATION, | CHILD HEALTH DAY 1S ISSUED President Roosevelt Desig-a nat y First for A Tterest s The President sets aside May Day throughout and possessions: WHEREAS a joini resolution of the Congress approved May 18, 1923 (45 Stat. 617), authorizes and re- quests the President of the United States to issue annually a procla mation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day; and WHEREAS child health is of vi- tal concern to the Nation; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANK- LIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Day. And T hereby call the people of the United States to the peaceful following proclamation by Franklin D. Roosevelt 1 as Child Health the United States i : |First Flight Cover Fans Buy { Up Everything in Sight 1 —Sheldon Acts | FATRBANKS, Alaska, April 30, Depletion of air mail stamps, due| to the rush of stamp fans to send tirst flight covers on Alaska’s pio- neer air mail flight southbound May from Fairbanks, has caused Posi- naster R. E. Sheidon to wire other Alackan towns for emergency sup-| _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PKESS PRICE TEN CENTS KES BIG TOLL Paris’ World Fair Envoys DEABLOCK HOLDS ALONG LUNGHAI | Japanese Gain Only Inches at Expense of | Many Lives 'FIERCE AIR BATTLE ' FOUGHT AT NANKING | Walled City of Tanchens Is | Costly Pawn of Heavy SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC a setting sun shed kindl. ly light on grim war drill which brought togeth - riers Ranger, Saratoga and Lexington. Not visible are battleships which led the "al(n(’k‘." e kbl nm i Rallwa; | I'ancheng Believes Juriedictional Dis- pute Will Be Decid BULLETIN April 30.—The Relatiens Beard this msent votin, SEATTLE, National Labor afternoon here announced for May 4 and May Portland May 6. BARGELONA IS RAIDED EARLY THIS MORNING [nsurgent Planes Take Ad- vantage of First Sun in Several Days 5 amd KETCHIKAN, Territorial Senator Norman R. Wa cer returned here last night from ttle by plane, hopeful the jur- isdictional dispute which is threat- ening to tie up the Alaska canned | salmon operations will be settled. “I received wholehearted and loyal cooperation from Alaskan labor leaders, namely Chester Carlson of Cordova, Harvey Smith of Cook In- Alaska, Apri PRESIDENT IS plies. It is feared that even Wi BARCELONA ). —Two. Ix morn= what the other towns will be able task of considering whether the Mile. Alice Deneige (left) and Mile. Jacqueline Figus, two of Paris' most | o, Carl Bronstad of Kodiak, M. beautiful girls, were the winners of the competition held to choose the i urgen FARM STATION Endorses F i;'Z)ther Meas- ures Which Would Change Alaska Laws WASHINGTON, April 30. — The Senate Territories committee has approved a bill to convey to the University of Alaska a tract of land near Petersburg for a fur experi- mental station and five other meas- ures proposing changes in Alaska laws. It approved one which would amend the statutes levying taxes on business and trade and providing electric companies the same license tax schedule now applicable on mer- cantile establishments, ‘“graduated in accordance with the amount of business done.” Another would au- thorize public utility districts to incur bonded indebtedness for im- OFF TODAY ON FISHING TRIP Three-pounders Roar Out | from New Cruiser as It Leaves Navy Yard | CHARLESTON. SC., April 30. — | Amid the roar and smoke of salut- ing three pounders, the new cruiser | Philadelphia, carrying President }Franklin D. Roosevelt on a fishing cruise that may extend for one week, | left the Navy Yard and headed to | somewhere on the South Atlantic. | It is believed that the eruiser may | take the President as far south as |the Virgin Islands for game fish trolling. Probably the President will return here and disembark a week from today. to spare there will not be sufficient | children in their families and in number to fill the demand here. “eacll community are receiving the A new supply of air mail stamps| full benefit of our knowledge of how girls who will represent France at the New York World’s Fair 1939, They will soon come to America, was ordered from Washington re- cently but they have not arrived. AR R T SAYS FLOATING CANNERIES ARE HIT HARD BLOW Passenger Ship Regulations to Be En&rced on All Craft ASTORIA, Ore., April 30. — Glenn !Murdock. Secretary of the Pacific | Coast Fishermens’ Union, charges to promote the health of mothers | and babies at the time of birth and |of children throughout the period | of growth and development, and ask them to plan how the child-health work of our public and private agen- | cies can be extended and made m effective. I also call upon the chil- |dren to celebrate the gains they | have made during the year in health | and strength and to do their part in | the year-round effort to promote | the health of the Nation. ] IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have | hereunto set my hand and caused | the seal of the United States to be | affixed. } DONE at the City of Washington this 4th day of April in the year of {our Lord nineteen hundred and | thirty-eight, and of the Indepen- dence of the United States of Amer- ica the one hundred and sixty- second. provement. Other measures would transfer | public school funds from Federal to the Territorial Treasury; place| control of mining “on all shores, bays ‘and inlets within thé juris diction of the Interior Department;” authorize transfer to Ketchikan of a tract of Federal land for construc- tion of a public school. — ., BASEBALL TODAY Loaded Passenger Train Is The following are scores of games| Otalled While Rotaries played this afternoon in thi major| leagues and received up to 2 o'clock. | Clear AvalanChe | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 30.— | A snowslide roared off the moun- tains yesterday at Mile 49 and halt- jed a train. i | The slide covered the track for Enenrly 200 feet. | ‘The train, loaded with passengers from Seward for the interior, was/| held at Moose Pass, where accom-| | modations were secured, while ro- oo Traffic Tied Up By Snowslide on | Alask_aRaiImad; | i | | | | National League Brooklyn 1; New York 3. Boston 16; Philadelphia 1. Chicago 11; St. Louis 5. American League Detroit 5; Cleveland 3. | St. Louis 0; Chicago 3.- New York 8; Washington 4. ‘Iurlcs were rushed from the ter- Philadelphia at Boston, cold. | minals to clear away the avalanche. L | severa) hundred independent opera- | FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (8Signed) By the President: Cordell Hull (signed) Secretary of State the larger Alaska cannery operators with ‘“engineering enforcement of passenger ship regulations on float- ing canneries to the detriment of small operators.” | - —— The officers of the floating can-| nery Memnon, 3400 tons, have been » notified by the Bureau of Naviga- Man chlldre" 1 Taking Parti . Taking Partin tion that the craft fails to meet passenger ship regulations, prevent- ing it from transporting fishermen and cannery workers to the Terri- tory. Murdock says the rulirg prevents tors running canneries and “their| only chance is to charter ships.” Murdock described the order as| monopolistic, favoring “big com-| i lering this afternoon in the Elks bines with their own ships prepared!‘m“ for the May Day Child Health to transport large cannery Crews|Day festival being sponsored by the 88 PARERSENG, | duneau Woman'’s Club. Murdock also said all trolling| Bright decorations added to the fleets on the Oregon Coast Wil tie-| aefair where May Pole dances were up May 1 unless an agreement on fish prices is reached between the buyers and union. He also said the unsettled Alaskan situation prevent- ed negotiations until May 7 when a rate conference is scheduled. noon was Mrs. H. 8. Graves. As a special feature of the afternoon, milk was served to all children pres- ent through courtesy of the Ju- neau Dairies. Children by the dozens were gath-| features. In charge of the after-| White House Usher Busy Man Who Sees that Nobody Bumps Into Anybody that Shouldn’t Is Greeter for All Guests, Arranges o ittings =) at Tables, Beds for Overnighters, et Tells of Dog Fight that Once in East Room By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, April 30. — The |man who keeps the Ambassador | from Spain from meeting head-on \aL the White House with the Am- | bagsador from Germany, and who | sees that Mrs. Nobody-in-Particu |is kept from boring Senator Hot- | potato, and who sees that the right | Mr. Jones gets in to see the Presi- | dent, and who has a car ready for ‘Mrs. Roosevelt, and who keeps cig- | aret stubs from accumulating in the East Room—that is Mr. Howell Crim. Mr. Crim is the new head usher in the White House, a job for wh he was trained under the late Ik Hoover, who spent 42 years at the | White House and then wrote a book about it, to the delight of many and the dismay of others who were looked upcn by the observant Mr Hoover as nothing much. Being head usher at the White House is something like being mana- |ger of an exclusive hotel. When state dinners are held he greets | all the guests, sees to it that every- body meets everybody else, and that the right gentleman finds the right | the dining room. lady to take to the right place in °° @) UC urred IT’S DONE BY FORMULA Mr. Crim is altogether nonchalant about the the Joneses. Seating them at dinner i ambassadors and all worked out z to formu- la. If Mr. Krakonki of a certain legation thinks Mr of an acting minister putterbug, it me: Crim, althougt about it. When the formula of ra and precedence calls for Mr. Kra konki to take Mrs. loniki to din- ner he will take her and make smalil talk about Washington laund the plight of the second secr ose wife would twins just as he s $0 nice in the “They are st of thin He once had to stop a dog fight right in the middle of a room fuil of guests. Mrs. Boelt . the Presi- dent’s daughter, bad two bird dc which had the run of the Whi House before they moved with th family to Seattle. When Jimmy Roosevelt came from Boston he brought a bird dog. Mrs. Boettiger g s quietly n aceor Saloniki, wil ar to My w all ng es or etary up @ I ned to be doi plomatic ser ays e (Continued on Page Seven) M. Dunlap and Mrs. Ethel Norman of Ketchikan,” said Senator Walker. The Ketchikan man went to Se- attle and San Francisco at the re- John W. Troy to pre- Alaska’s case in the dispute labor and packers, porary Span- I to the worst quest of Gov ent between a5t 50 In Seattle, late yesterday after- noon, both the AFL and CIO ap- proved terms for a consent election to settle the jurisdictional issue in the Alaska cannery industry and action of the Labor Board is await- ed in setting a date for the election Voting will be in Portland and Se- attle, Movemer u L not. reported but roads due to rain ar stalled motorized ilso foot movements. DIMOND BOND BILL UP FOR HEARING SOON Simila e impassable known tor uipment, and RIS N S CORNERSTONE PROVIDED FOR BARRON SHAFT Arrangements Are Made to Mark Place Where Rog ers and Post Crashed Measure Intioduced enate by Senator Iydings, Mm_\'iu.d n WASHINGTON, April 3 J. Dimond o hony Senator M A CLAREMORE, Ok P lion dollar ame hi Monda aring a Aske heid 1 lays on the I'he become B issue. measure provide operative . on Pinanc woulc the same stone for the Governor, At Secretary way Eng: Education and Presiden University Dimond said he wa ou the meas ) + Territory " two million, with a proposed public. works pregr y Genera here. Dr. Kellems. and Wilmer P. of Hilleboro, Tex Los Angeles Sims plan to s on August 15, the t for P shafl 1 to wh an( | plane plunged. ard the am.