The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7793. JUNEAU, ALASKA, — SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MEXICO-BRITAIN RELATIONS SEVERED RETURNS SHOW 1 l,Dy_cA(rjand_ Der Fuehrer Shake Hands in Rome . NO CHANGE IN NOMINATIONS With Yakulfiz Absentees | to Count Demos Poll 2,329, GOP 1,511 With all precinets in the First Division reporting, with the excep- tion of Yakutat which cast a total of 27 votes in the general election of | 1936 and 32 absentees ballots yet | to be counted, there is no change in nominations made at the recent pri- mary, according to tally of official ballots at the Federal Clerk’s office. Exempting, as above, Yakutat, and the absentee ballots, the Democrats | of the First Division cast 2329 bul-i lots and the Republicans 1,511. The | Democrats nominated Henry Roden | to the Senate over Crystal Snow Jenne and named John McCormick, as high man, J. P. Anderson, A. P.| Walker of Craig and James V. Davis | to the House. All but Walker are from Juneau. [ The Republicans nominated to the House, Frank Price of Sitka, as high man, Frank Barnes of Wrang- | ell, Frank Foster and Jack Wilson, | both of Juneau. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, un- opposed in the Democratic primary, polled 2,181 votes and Treasurer Oscar G. Olson, seeking re-nomin- SAEEEREET ALASKA UNION Brazil Arouses — LOYALISTS IN OF FISHERMEN Germany;Places ~ SURPRISE ACT, TR ACGEPT TERMS 6 Nazisin Jail ~ EASTERN AREA and Will H. Chase of Cordova, ask- nomination as Treasurer, polled 1,- For Senate—Jenne, 931, Roden,| . ol 1 1 1 o {San Frains Clogaminhion Rio Police Round Up 800 Government Receives New Suspected of Part War Planes Which 147 The total For House—Anderson, 1,119; Dav. VO‘ES to WO!‘k fOY PAF is, 971; Fred G. Hanford, 782; Jo- i 1 1 in Southeast Alaska g Riejlxon Make Attacks RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14.—Ger- HENDAYE, May 14—A surprise follows: seph F. Krause, 759; McCormick, 1,223; Henry Messerschmidt, 875; —_— SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 14— pany today protested to Brazil attack by 50 new Spanish Govern- against the arrests of six German ment war planes has injected a George H. Peterson, 439; George S. Talbot, 82¢; A. P. Walker, 1,007. The local Alaska Fishermen’s Un- Republican ion last ;l(light vot,eq‘uz’ to 90 to AC- | citizens as suspects in the abortive new factor into the operations on 1,114. |cept working conditions provided in| pagcist, uprising in this city last tne eastern Spanish front as tne Insurgent offensive against Valen- For Delegate—Al White, For Treasurer—Chase, 1,047, | the proposal to the union to furn-|weqnesday. For Senate—Howard D. Stabler, ish men for the Pacific American| officials disclosed that 800 have cia gained headway. been arrested in a huge roundup| The Insurgent air force, long that included 150 sailors. dominant in the Spanish Civil War, 986, | Fisheries at Seattle for their south- For House—Barnes, 888; Cash east Alaska canneries. Police seized new quantities of is reported to have hastily called war supplie, including 80 powerful for reinforcements. Cole, 683; Foster, 750; Mildred R. Yesterday Alaska Fishermen’s = bombs. ‘The government’s mass attack Hermann, 634; Price, 908; Royal Union members were awaiting off — et land and Seattle salmon companics —The Brazilian government assured lover the Cantavieja sector came Shepard, 429; Wilson, 742. of working conditions from Po ". DUGE |s IRKEn and had called a meeting to Voie the German Embassy that the six after a report that 300 new gov- The friendship of Europe’ two great Fascist States, Germany and Italy, was dramatized in the handclasp of Premier Mussolini of Italy and Reichstuehrer Hitler of Germany on the latter’s arrival in Rome for historic conversations. While the two shook hands at right, Col it Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minis- ter (extreme left) and King Vittorio Emanuele stood waiting their turn to greet Der Fuehrer. This picture was sent by_radio to New York from London after being received there from Rome by telephoto. tally on both tickets Democratic VOTE EXPLAINED MAN AND WIFE LOSE WANIGAN IN HEAVY BLOW Mr. and Mrs. Meadows Cling to Tractor On | Raft for Hours For a number of Day has had the endorsement of high authority | After escaping from their found-| of everybody |ering wanigan home in a violent |storm Wednesday night in Stevens! | Passage, and leaping to a log raft {to cling for three hours to the cold metal ci a wave-washed tractor, Mr. |and Mrs. L. L. Meadows were thank- ful to be alive today. Meadows is a contractor in the | firm of Meadows, Custard and Oja, which firm is to construct two | bridges on the Eagle River Highway | this summer. | With the cannery tender Betty B. | towing the raft of machinery and | wanigan, which was the Meadow's | home, they were proceeding from At five oclock Wednesday even-| ing, the Betty B was making fair| | time off Port Snettisham when| | suddenly the wind swept down with | unbelievable force. | “Mrs. Meadows and I were on board the wanigan behind the raft,” Meadows said today. “I was working out on deck and paused to light a :cigaretto Suddenly the wind hit| SHANGHAI, May use like someone had turned on a nese army communique claimed to- | powerful fan. The home started to day that China's Lunghai Railwuy keel over, and then one of the lines had been cut East of Tangshan. | holding us to the raft broke Nipponese mobile forces blew up | “I tola the wife to jump for the| @ bridge on the Lunghai line, and | raft, and if we did not get there to- claimed that 400,000 Chinese troops | gether, to make for the Caterpillar were trapped by the coup and must and hang on. About that time, the surrender or starve. | second line broke and left us about! The vital link of steel has been |ten feet from the raft on the end| the goal of the Japanese drive for lof the emergency line. Of course, the past five months. The road runs lthe way the sea was running, we| east to west through Central China’s | were at times very close to the raft, rich agricultural areas. so we jumped and made it.” Meadows shook his head as he re- membered how hard it was ordinar- ily for him to negotiate the slippery llogs of the machinery raft. REERETAT . i | Jump—Land | “When we jumped, we landed m-‘3 HALIB TERS |gether, and I picked up my wife| | (she only weighs 105 pounds) and | | hopped over the logs better than I ever could before. I put her up on| the tool box behind the Cat and then started to try to save some of the tools that were shooting off into Trapped—Must Give in or Starve China, near Foochow, evidently aim- ing at the Hankow-Canton Railway. SEATTLE, May 14—Only three the water, but I couldn’t save much, because I had to hang on most of the time, with water washing up around my waist.” For the next three hours, Mr. and Mrs. Meadows hung on while the halibuters, all from the local banks, sold here today as follows: Mabel J, 3,000 pounds, 14% and 6 cents a pound; Forward, 13,000 |pounds, 13% and 6 cents; Tacoma, 15,000 pounds, 13% and 6 cents. e SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 14.— Andrew Vigen, Secretary of the Al- foreign power or organization. This assurance was given despite Betty B. battered its way into Lime- | stone Inlet where the crew could| last night on the expected proposals.| German citizens were arrested as ernment planes have been unloaded individuals and there was no in-|at Barcelona. dication they were agents of any Mussolini Shouts Totalitar- 1an States Must “March Together to End” GENOA, May 14.—Mussolini, hit- ting at what he declared to be anti-Fascist bias in the United States, declared today that “totali- tarian states must become & bloc and march together to the end” if threatened with ‘“doctrinal war by socialized democracies.” The speech reflected the Italian government’s growing irritation over remarks made recently by Secretary of War Woodring and various other American acts. Woodring on May 5 warned dictator-controlled nations that Democratic countries might some day get enough of their pro- vocations and resort to war. 60LD IMPORTS DROPPING OF WASHINGTON, May 14. — The Department of Commerce reports gold imports for the week totalled $3,141644 as compared . to .$15,289,- 924 for the previous week. CITY WAREHOUSE IS BEING RAZED Wrecker Lee Rox today began tearing down the old City Wharf warehouse in the rear of the lnger[ and newer structure. City officials said the place will be filled in with rock for a parking place. ‘lncheduled to arrive in Juneau at YUrnh to Fairbanks before the school aska Fishermen's Union, said all lo- the fact that President Vargus had Harold McCormick Is to Wed Nurse CHICAGO, Il May 14.—Harold SRS [ cals, excepting Portland, voted to flatly accused the Green Shirts, the accept the offer of working condi- rebelling group, of having *“foreign tions by two Seattle and one As- help,” in their short-lived uprising, toria firm. but he did not name the foreign Vigen said the Portland local source he spoke of. voted two to one against acceptance - - of the proposal which included a " % F. McCormick, Chairman of the| ;‘::: of ome cent lower than last Pacl Am Flsharles Board of International Harvester,| Vigen said he believed the action " tday announged, Hib Igtention 1o would clear the way for conversa- | M ch N :fiifdah Wilon, of 108 Migcles, ) tions with all companies in the g TAlaskan trade lnasm‘l’lch as K. Kit-| ay a"ge am 1 Mccormick Was REPVIINY, wed. to | chernor, Vice-President of the Al- Felith Hookesellon £0d) Mo Gsnnu; aska Packers' Assoclation, indicated BELLINGHAM, Wash, May 14| 2okd concert singer. willingness to go along on the scale| A proposal to change the name of 3 proposed by the Northwest com-| the Pacific American Fisheries to| panies, the Pacific American Company will| Representatives of 10 unions, nam- pe considered at a special meeting ing a coordinating committee for the of the directors May 19, it was an-, unions interested in t.he_ Alaskan nounced following the annual meeir-| The following are scores received | season, met today to discuss the ing All officers of the concern were UP to 1:30 o'clock this afternoon of ‘next step in the neg_ountions_. lTl\e reelected and J. N. Gilbert, vice games played in the two major tone of the meeting is optimistic. ' president and production superin-|leagues: | Ray Brown, Secretary of the Mari- | tendent, was named as an addition- | National League | time Federation, said none of the g] member of the board. | Cincinnati 6; St. Louis 7. |unfons are asking more than the The hoard consists of Frank L.| Boston 2; Brooklyn 10. ;1937 scale and the “men feel they Taylor, chairman; E. B. Deming, American League | can back dov{n no further.” Archie W. Shiels, Frank M. War- Washington 9; Boston 10, eleven The group includes men separate ren E. S, McCord, Milton G. innings. from the unions which have accept- Brown, Charles F. Larrabee, A. W. Philadelphia 1; New York 1, game ed the offer. ¢ | Deming and Gilbert. called at end of fifth on account of George Woolf, Business Agent for| ghiels continues as president, with | rain. the CIO cannery workers, said be|parrabee, McCord and Gilbert vice Other scheduled games postponed understood the Alaska Packers had president; Thad McGlinn, secretary- — e at least one vessel loaded with sup- treasurer; E. J. McDonald and Mal- 2 plies at Alameda ready for the|la P. Bevington, assistant secre- Kustr metlnn" north. | taries. G. B. Peterson, General Manager ALEPSL e (S Sl el | of the Red Salmon Canning Com- pany, said that uniess other unions MINING INSTRUCTOR | Breaks Shuuldflr make up their nifids “in about 24 hours, I'm afraid it will be too late.| ARRIVES FROM SITKA‘ Even then it is doubtful.” | Peter Kostrometinoff, prominent o E e el | H. G. Wilcox, extension depart-|g, . rocigent, and rorm]:r mayor ment mining instructor for the Uni- of that city, was brought to Juneau versity of Alaska, and summer field d . v . MRS- FRAWLEY ON man for the Territorial Department i e B s o iafts G ;ul- M’KINLEY TONIGHT of Mines, arrived in Juneau on the‘fir‘: %:fioglr:;vi:elr:é‘;;‘?::s':;:;: Northland after conducting a min- g ,irometinoft was inspecting a | Mrs. James A. Frawley, widow of D8 extension course in Sitka. He chimney on his home when bricks Territorial Senator Frawley of reported a wide interest in the work to which he was holding, gave way. Nome who passed away this last|there, 45 being enrolied in the class. o "ro) yyiee stories, sl;sgainmg . | winter in Pasadena, is a passenger) MT- Wilcox expects to stay in "“n"badly broken shoulder and shock. | aboard the steamer Mt. McKinley, eau from now on and will not re- Dr. William Charteris accompan- |ied Kostrometinoff to Juneau. ——————— 11:30 tonight, syear ends. t put a boat over and take the water- soaked couple safely off. Arriving in Juneau last night, the Meadow’s estimated their loss at ‘everything personal they had.” In dollars and cents, the loss would approximate $3,000, which included the 40 foot three room wanigan it- 1f, clothes, rifles, a $150 camera, all the company’s papers and books, and $300 in cash on the bedroom dresser. Search For Salvage Making a search for salvage early this morning, Meadows and the, crew of the Betty B. found only scattered bits of wreckage on the beach at Grand Island, several miles north of where the wanigan broke loose. Among the articles recovered, ir- onically, were one unbroken radio tube, a storage battery, a few pairs of scissors, the kitchen walls, and a dress hangar which had held some of Mrs. Meadows evening dresses which were then reduced to ribbons by the pounding of the waves on the beach. How hard the wind blew, none of the crew of the Betty B. or the escorting Peewee nearby could esti- mate, but it did blow hard enough to rip asunder the half open oil- skins of one of the men on the deck of the Betty B. Buying new clothes today because they saved from the wreck only the few clothes they were wearing, Mr. and Mrs. Meadows are determined they will take no more wanigan rides. They are staying at the Gas- tineau Hotel. Friday, 13th Bad Day for Big Mouth Comic HOLLYWOOD, Cal., May 14—Joe Brown came to grief, carrying a football in a college movie sequence on Friday the Thirteenth. The big mouth comic tore a tend- on in his leg and was carried to | the sudio hospital then to his home. | LAMP EXPLODES, TWO0 BOYS DIE | WAONGA, Okla, May 14—Clar- ence Hoskins, aged 8, and his brother Harley, aged 14, were burned to death in a lamp explosion in the | bedroom of their farm home. | sTock QuoTATiONS | *- —4 NEW YORK, May 14. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 88%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 28'%, Bethlehem Steel 47%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5, General Motors 30%, International Harvester 56%, Kennecott 34%, New Proclamation years the American Legion Auxiliary has conducted a poppy sale on the Saturday preceding Memorial One-tenth of the money from the Alaskan sale goes to the national organization, the balance remains in Alaska to be expended by the American Legion Auxiliary for child welfare. The annual sale of poppies for 1938 has been set for May 28. On that day wherever the American Legion Auxiliary has an organization, the poppies will be sold. It is very worthy of the efforts put behind the poppy sale and is deserving of the serious consideration I trust that all the people of Alaska will contribute their money and time liberally and make the Poppy Day sale in Alaska large enough to be worthy of the splendid cause. Dated at Juneau, this 14th day of May, 1938. JOHN W. TROY, | JAPAN SEVERS FOUR HEAVY LUNGHAI LINE CRUISERS TO 400,000 Chinese Troops Summer Cruise to Alaska ately. 14—A Japa-| Japanese warships landed troops | this morning on the coast of South | SELL, SEATTLE York Central 13%, Southern Pacif- ic 13%, United States Steel 45, Cities Service 10, Pound $4.9. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 117.21, rails 22.96, utilities 19.77. - Cigarette Causes Fire Last Night Fire caused by a cigarette left OIL DISPUTE BRINGS BREAK, TWO NATIONS 'Mexican Minister to-London Is Recalled as British Grow Stern ECONOMIC SANCTIONS | LIKELY TO BE USED |Schism Is Precipitated by John Bull's Demand for Payment of Small Bill This movement the President and others in Governor of Alaska. | \ -4 ! MEXICO CITY, May 14.—Mexico ‘Lodny broke off diplomatic relations | with Great Britain because of that country’s “unfriendly attitude” after | the March 19 expropriation of $250,- 1 000,000 worth of British oil proper- ties in Mexico. Primo Villa Michel, Mexican Min- ister in England, has been recalled, and it is expected that Owen St. Clair O'Malley, British Minister to be recalled immedi- COME NORTH | Mexico, will The break was precipitated by from San Pedro to | Great Britain’s increasingly ~stern Slayt June 2] ‘demnnds for the return of the con- | fiscated oil lands, asserting there SAN PEDRO Cal, May 14.—Ad-|had been a “denial of justice” and miral C. C. Bloch announced today | Political motivation in the seizures. that 107 warships will move north| Mexico flatly refused to return next month, June 21, on the annual | the lands. summer cruise | Demand for payment of a small Four heavy cruisers are scheduled | Pill. less than $100,000, caused the to make the trip to Alaska. actual schism when Great Britain . o pressed Mexico for payment of the third of twelve annual installments | on British claims for damages grow- MATAN“SKANS | ing out of the Mexican Civil War. The bill was due January 1, but ' CELEBRATE 3RD payment was delayed. A formal Brit- ish note said the Mexican attitude with relation to this bill and other | “government indebtedness, is gen- |erally far from reassuring.” YEAR IN NURTH\ Foreign Minister Eduardo Hay, | sharply challenged the right of e Great Britain to “analyze the do- | mestic situation of Mexico.” The British Foreign Office, sur- | prised at the action, unofficially | hinted that economic sanctionsare | likely to be taken against Mexico. | Goods worth 68,000,000 pesos were PALMER, May 14.—Matanuskans sold by Mexican interests to Great had a general holiday today, pre- | Britain in 1936, and Mexico only ab- ceded by a community vaudeville sorbed 23,000,000 pesos worth of show and dance last night, which British goods in return. marked the third anniversary of - eee their coming to the valley to estab- | lish the colony. The celebration | also marked the first step toward | permanency when Manager Jacobs | said more than half of the colonists | had signed conditional sales con-| \ |Holiday Also Marks First ‘ Step Toward Permanency Colonists’ Contracts i tracts for farms with the Federal | Government. | There was some opposition to | the signing at first because of a misunderstanding and Jacobs said | that perahps a dozen in all would | not sign. These will be asked to leave. The contracts give the colon- ists 30 years to pay, with payments ranging from $80 to $300 per year, depending on the debt piled up the first three years. | ISCARRIED & T0 SCAFFOLD Convicted Slayer Strapped in Straitjacket, Plung- | ed to Death [ i MOUNDSVILLE, West Virginia, May 14.—Raymond Styers, plung-| ed to death on the gallows early| | this morning for the murder of An- burning on a rubbish piled table in| a storage room in the Anderson Ap- artments over the Family Shoe Store on Seward Street last night, was quickly extinguished by the Fire Department. na Bris, In a beer parlor robbery. | The condemned man refused to| walk to the gallows and was strap-| ped in a straight-jacket and carried to the platform screaming “I'm in- nocent.” JT s O S S 4 TRIBESMENT0 DIVIDE AWARD OF $5,000,000 KLAMATH FALLS, Oregon, May 14—The Klamath Indian tribes- Only damage of note was to the}men have voted to divide $5,000,000 front door of the Family Shoe Store,| awarded them by the Government which firemen were forced to break for land taken away from them |in order to get in and spread tarp-|years ago. There will be 1450 tribes- aulins to cover stock in danger of a men to benefit by the division wetting from water being played, which, of course, is subject to appro- on the fire above, val of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. | J ON BEACH OVER PRIGE DISPUTE Hand and Power Boats Laid Up Pending Negotiations n Seattle, Is Report All salmon trollers are staying or e beach pending price negotia- tions from headquarters in Seat- tle, it was announced today by John Pentinnen, organizer for the Pa- cific Coast Fishermen’s Union with which the trollers are affiliated. The action was taken following a message from Seattle yesterday to Pentinnen, and it was stated that it would effect all trollers in South- |east Alaska, including hand and ower. Details of the price differences were not revealed in the Seattle in- formation, it was stated. The quoted price has been nine cents for reds and four and a half for whites which, it was said, the trollers have been getting in town. It is under- stood the fishermen are asking nine and five cents on the fishing grounds. BOY DRAGGED T0 HIS DEATH Youth, Playing Wild West, Victim of Prank with Cow Chief Actor PINEVILLE, Kentucky, May 14— Mitchell Mason, aged 11, lost his life when he looped a lead rope from a cow around his own neck, playing Wild West. A dog barked and frightened the cow which ran dragging the boy over 100 yards before stopped. The lad’s neck was broken.