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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” + VOL. LIL, NO. 7798. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1938. MEMBER AS TED PRESS o —— PRICE TEN CENTS TRUNK MUDRER REPORTED FROM ~ TAKU COUNTRY Two Disme;;b;red Bodies Said to Have Been Found in Trunks Near Lodge DISCOVERY MADE | AT JOHNSON CREEK Officers on Way to Inves-| tigate “Mystery” and Possible Foul Play The official party returning from Taku by plane at 3 o'clock this afterncon reported the “trunk murler” mystery evident- ly was skeletons chanced upon in an Indian burial grounds. The bones were in two camphor san- dalweod chests such as the In- dians used, the officers said. One sheulder bone appeared as if it had been sawed, giving rise to the report that the bodies had been dismembered and placed in trunks. The bones were brought here by the officers, the chests being left at the burial grounds. | | | | | A reported mystery “trunk mu der” up the Taku river country to-| day sent officers flying to the scene to investigate the report which reached Juneau last night. Two dismembered skeletons have been found in two old trunks at the mouth of Johnson creek, about a mile and a half from Mary Joyce's Taku Lodge, according to informa- tion to the Marshal’, office from| B. B. Neiding, Superintendent of Polaris-T4ku mine. The discovery was made, according to the report, by Don Abel and John Pope, who were cutting timber in the vicinity for a float for the mine. Skeletons Sawed Up The Skeletons apparently had been there a long time, the repert said,| but there was evidence that they had ben sawed in pieces before being stuffed in the trunks in which they were found. There also was evidence that the feet of one of the bodies had been tied together with rope, it was reported, and there was still parts of clothing in the trunks. The latter showed evidence of having been exposed to the elements for a long time and theory was advenced by authorities prior to the investiga- tion now being conducted that Abel and Pope may have chanced upon an old Indian burial grounds. This theory was strengthened by the re- port that the trunks, reported to be of sandalwood, such as the Indians often used for burial, were on a knoll overlooking the water, a typ- ical early Indian burial site. Following the arrival of Capt. A. H. Curry on his vessel the Taku Chief here this morning, confirm- ing further information, U. S. Com- This Sen. Pat Harrison (D. Mi Senator’s daughter surprised new west coast home. Ne Invitation ALIENATION CHARGED T0 NOME MINER Seattle Druggist Asks for $15,000 in Super- ior Court SEATTLE, May 20. — Superior Court records disclosed today that Albert Stenger, Seattle druggist, is suing Ray Broste, Nome mining | man, for alienation of the affections “Have a Look, Dad” what the former Catherine Harrison seems to tell her father, .) showing off new wedding ring. family with wedding to Dr. Irvin T. Miller of C erick, Md. After a visit in Gulfport, M w0 Third i’arty Exfilained By LaFollette; Is Personal SALMON DISPUTE SETTLED IN SEATTLE APANESE IN SUCHOW AFTER FIERCE FIGHT Victorious Armies Enter| Vital Rail _]unch'on—u Mop Up Campaign = SHANGHAI, May 20.—High Com-~ manders of the Japanese Army have made their entry into fallen Su- | chow as their victorious armies con- | | tinued to mop up Chinese forces | around the strategic city, a vital rail | | junction | Suchow reported to be com-| | pletely occupied by the Japanese {and further announcement is made | that the invaders are closing in 35,- 000 Chinese soldiers said to be | trapped in the vicinity of Suchow. | It is said there is every indication the Chinese forces wiil be annihil- ated Seven thousand Chinese have al-| ready been killed in the Suchow area, according to the reports re-| ceived here by Japanese headquar- | CHINAFLIERS BOMB JAPANESE WITH LEAFLETS | PR | Remarkable Flight Made by Pilots in American Made Planes | HANKOW, May 20. — Chinese| crews and two big American made | lMau'un bombing pldnes were givenI a triumph welcome when they r turned from what the Chinese Army | Aviation Headquarters described as flight over Western Japan in| which leaflets were dropped instead | of bombs. | The airmen are said to have cov- ered 2500 miles, the longest non- stop flight ever made by OChinese| fliers. | It is understood the two planes| soared over the district containing Nagasaki, 470 miles from Shang-| | The announcement of her olton, Cal. Ceremony was in Kred- couple will go on to their a to Liberal Voter By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 20. — Ask young Bob La Follette what this new National Progressive party is all hai, Sasebo, the great naval base about, and he tells you it is primar- Pl g 4 Sl ily a personal mvimlmnrt,cl!\d;', Lib- ?g(m::_:\“:;ott: l::ldmth;:lyp\‘y"ll:‘:l\‘: eral Voter who doesn’t feel at home . o : SRR with the Demoorsts B Republ from the base for the China coast. cans. No disgruntled Socialists or Communists need apply. Senator Bob La Follette and Lis brother, Governor Phil, co-found- ers of the party, are practical poli- ticians; they know the radical stamp is no good for all-around vote getting anywhere in the United States. - Then ask Young Bob why the baby party was launched at this particular time, and you'll get a lot of interesting reasons that LARGE SOVIET PLANE CRASHES, AFLIERS DEAD | missioner Felix Gray, Deputy Mar- shal Walter Hellan and Game War- detn Douglas Gray left here at noon with Pilot Alex Holden for the scene. No One Missing |of Stenger’s bride. Stenger seeks $15,000 in the suit. Broste filed answer, denying he had alienated anyone’s affections or that he planned to accompany Mrs. | Stenger from Seattle to Alaska. haven't yet appeared on the rec- ord. “PFact is,” explains Young Bob/ seriously, “a real American liberal is not getting a square deal from | either of the major political parties Twelve Others Aboard| Craft Injured—Inves- | tigation Is Begun | MOSCOW, May 20.—The,author- Capt. Curry told the story much| County Clerk’s records show that | right now. The conservative wings as it had been received by the Mar- | Stenger filed a divorce complaint| of both the Democratic and Repub- shal's office from Nieding, pointed | APril 27, against Mrs. Stenger, whom | lican parties are playing hob with out that the report he received stat. | he had married March 1. President Roosevelt’s progressive ed definitely that the skeletons had| Broste said he had loaned Mrs.| 1636 platform. The Democratic party been sawed up before being put in the trunks. There is no report of any one be- ing missing in the Taku country for several years, authorities said, although a report was being circu- lated that many years ago Lwo men had disappeared into the Taku reg- ion never to be heard of again. These reports were being discounted by officers pending the investiga- tion. e GETS $3,500 CLIFTON, Ariz, May 20.—A lone bandit held up the Clifton Branch of the Valley Bank and secured $3,- | Stenger $200 on a prom: ry note before she had been married, but he denied having given her any money since she wed. e ———— FISHING BOATS OF JAPAN SEEN | * * | BASEBALL TODAY | *The following are scores of base* ball games played in the two major leagues this afternoon and receiv- ed up to 1:30 o'clock: NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 4; New York 0. Pittsburgh 5; Brooklyn 7. Chicago 16; Philadelpiha 7. AMERICAN LEAGUE Phildelphia 5; Detroit 2. Washington 3; Cleveland 6. - e BANK BANDIT ALASKA WATERS |Capt. Throndsen Confirms | Previous Reports from Bristol Bay ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20.— |Capt. C. E. Throndsen, master of|jater, depending on the support we! g the mail steamer Starr has radioed the Anchorage Times he sighted Japanese fishing boats about 10 mil- \es off Port Moller on the Bristol | Bay side of the Aleutian Peninsula. Capt. Throndsen said the Oriental ships had fishing gear out that ex- He did not |tended many miles. !in particular is divided, and the pro- gram the party pledged itself | carry out is in danger.” to | ‘Sabotage’ By Conservatives Young Bob tells you he thinks| a majority of voters in this country approved the Roosevelt 1936 plat- form when they re-elected the New Deal President. He believes the con- servatives are sabotaging that pro- | gram—the same conservatives who pledged themselves to carry it out.| “We are assuming,” he goes on, “that the majority still wants a | liberal, progressive program and they want it as soon as they can get it. We simply are offering them the opportunity to get the job | done. “Only the broadest outline of a platform has been presented. De-| tails, candidates—all of that comes| get. Principles we have stated. The | program itself must come to us from the people who want this party.” | Puts It Up To Voters Young Bob takes off his horn- rimmed glasses. He looks for all the world like a business man dis- ‘llies have begun an investigation in- | to the .crash of a huge plane that| cost the life of veteran Soviet Arcl»l ic flier M. 8. Mamushkin and three others returning from a mercy flight into the North Pole Basin. Twelve others were aboard the plane which fell last Wednesday into a river near Archangel. They are re- porued recovering from their injur- les. ‘The plane was one which another of Russia’s foremost fliers, J. D. Mosskovschy, had previously flown on the same errand, search for the missing Levanevsky plane. It is understood that one of the four motors of the plane caught fire and Pilot Guchenko attempted to make an emergency landing but the plane bounced into the air and fell into the river, —————— L ——— U ) | sTock QUOTATIONS.IP NEW YORK, May 20. — Closing uotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Can 87, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 25%, Bethlehem Steel 46%, Commonwealth and Southern Curtiss Wright 47%, General Motors 29%, International Harves- | ter 52%, Kennecott 32, New York Central 12%, Southern Pacific 11%, state however the exact number of cyssing a sales campaign—not at|United States Steel 4%, Cities Ser- !boats in the fleet. | Earlier it was reported that a 7. {000 ton steamer and four tenders were on the Bristol Bay fishing | all like a spell-binder trying to work | up the emotions of voters. I ““The demand for this party is | right here,” he says, waving his { vice 9%, Pound $4.96%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Thirty Injured in Los Angeles Street Car Crash persons were morning rush. the “U” ed to make over on its side, one-man f likely (o die, although several were ured recently, s The “U Surgeons “pretty badly hutl.” Impact of tracks, 96-Year-Old Rule of Court I Upset by Highest Tribunal; More Power AERIAL MAP, INT. ALASKA, T0 BF MADE Part of Aic Mail Route, Ju- neau to Fairbanks, Also Included in Plan WASHINGTON, May 20 announces - The Survey the by starting June 10, an area of 10,000 Geological mapping aerial photography. the region which Alaska. includes the miles of st of Fairbank ri. of the area route to be taken by the Interna- tional Highway if the American- Canadian plans materialize. The other part will follow new Juneau-Fairbanks alr route for which the PAA ha ceived the contract FOUND GUILTY, square lies ¢ P: the maii re- - MATE KILLING IN 33 MINUTES German PoeTQuickly Con- victed by Jury in ‘ Tampa, Fla. TAMPA, Fla., May 20—After de-| liberating 33 minutes, a jury last night convicted Paul F. Bunge, 52, German poet, of first degree mur-| der of his wife on May 2 The jury did not recommend mer- cy and under the law when mercy is not recommended, death in the electric chair is mandatory Bunge is also accused of the death of his two daughter; B0LD - BEARING SAND REPORTED ON 'FRISCO BAY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 20 Gold bearing sand has been found along the San Francisco Bay beach. M. L. Larson said he discovered the metal in black sand one mile and a half south of Fort Funston Life Saving Station. Several other miners have set | train to State Benches By PRESTON GROVER ASHINGTON, May 20. ~ This may be a bit tough going but it is full of juristic lawyer months vitamins that friends will be and years hence. The yeme Court has just up- et a 96-year-old rule of law and held that Federal Courts, in decid- ing involving “‘unwritten” or common law, must abide by the common law as it is interpreted in the state whe the case arises. Thus is the importance of state courts accented by no less an authority than the Supreme Court. Harry J. Tompkins of town, Pa., brought the resulted in the historic He was walking on a path along the FErie railroad tracks when a sed. An open door hit railroad contended thai according to Pennsylvania com- mon law a man walking *“along” a railroad track is little better than a trespasser even if the path is an old one. (Walking “across” might be different.) The railroad con- tended that Pennsylvania common law prevented Tompkins ering damages unless the wantonly injured him. But Tompkins did not suc State Court. He was able to sue in Federal Court because the railroad was incorporated in New York not in Pennsylvania where the ac- cident occurred. your discussing case! Hughe suit that him. The COV- road THE NEW RULE The first Federal Court declined to accept the Pennsylvania state court precedent and held instead that no law or precedent stood in | the way of Tompkins collecting the 30,000 the jury awarded. Supreme Court reversed thatl The de~ cision and held the Pennsylvania|sayi State Court precedent should guide the Federal Court. Federal courts always have held that they must abide by state courtf interpretationyi of “written” state law, but ever since decision in 1842 they have followed their own interpretations of what should be the common law. The Tomp- kins case represented a complete change of attitude. Several years ago the Brown and Yellow Taxicab Company had a contract with the Louisville and Nagshville railroad for the exclu- sive privilege of handling passen- s at the Bowling Green, Ky railroad station. While there was no specific Kentucky statute pro- hibiting this, the state courts had held that as a matter of “general or common law” such exclusive contracts violated a section of the state constitution against mono- poly. THE OLD RULE In came the Black and White Taxicab Company and began cut- ting in on the Brown and Yellow| cab business at the station, The Brown and Yellow Cab Com- car, traveling north, was struck by tossed passengers helpless boulevard stop, polic ering them with broken glass, the crash made the * decision | sel to serve as a tender for the Prib- 1 i UNIONS AGREE T0 GUT BUT WIN OVERTIME POINT | | iCl() Cannery Workers Will Go Ahead with Al- aska Operations SAN FRANCISCO IS STILL STALEMATED {No Decision Re;xched There and Settlement Re- mains Indefinite SEAT May 20. — The long standing Imon cannery workers dispute in Seattle is settled, while in San Francisco, hopes for a set- tlement in a similar controversy were jolted by union rejection of the offer of one of the packers. In Seattle CIO cannery unions agreed last night with the canned salmon industry to go ahead with Alaskan operations. Workers for Seattle-owned plants n Bristol Bay area accepted a 7 per cent wage reduction from the 1937 scale. The union won the overtime wage point, About a thousand Seattle workers plan to sail in three or four days for Alaska. In San Francisco complications irose when one packer, the Red Sal- mon Company, acted independently of the packers association in making an offer to CIO cannery workers. Workers refused to compromise on the seven per cent wage cut. IN SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, May 20.—Pros- pects of a settlement of the wage dispute between packers and the eleven unions that is holding up 1938 opration plans in the salmon industry remained indefinite after the action of four unions on the op= rators’ proposal of a 7 per cent wage cut. Marine Firemen and Marine En- gineers accepted the 7 per cent wage cut offer, Marine Cooks and Stewards and |the Cannery Workers Union re=- jected the offer of settlement on the basis of a 7 per cent cut. LT, GOVERNOR, ' CONNECTICUT, FACES TRIAL Accusation Made that He and Others Defrauded City of Large Sums the westbound . The said none of the thirty injured is ¢ jump the FISH BUREAU'S BLOG. PROGRAM IS GIVEN BOOST ‘Hotrge Committee Approves of Proposed Plan Cost- ing- Large Sum WASHINGTON, May 20. — The House Merchant, Mar and Fish- erfes Committee has approved of the five-year building program for the Fisheries Bureau. The program, according to esti- mates, will cost more than $2,800,- 000. The largest single recommen- dation is for $400,000 for a vessel to conduct scientific oceanographic research on the Phcific Coast. An- | other item is for $300,000 for a ves- ilof Tslands. The program calls | ment or improvements fish cultural stations tories FURTHER BOOST | BIVEN AIR MAIL for develop- to Alaska and labora- FOR TERRITORY President Wants Service| WATERBURY, Conn., May 20.— Lieut. Gov. Frank Hayes is facing a grand jury accusation that he helped defraud Waterbury of “sums of money in excess of a million dol- lars.” from Seattle to Juneau to Start by July 1 Hayes posted $25,000 bail pending | his trial on a charge of conspiracy. Hayes, who was Mayor of Water- SR s | bury for the past eight years, ap- SEATTLE, May 20.—W. W. Con-| peared at the court house with his ner, aviation enthusiast, interrupted | mother and the two were closeted a pert commission hearing on com-| with his political allies, Henry Min= mercial seaplane sites here today|or, Chairman of the Police Com- with a telegram from Stephen Early,| mission and Thomas Kelly, his exe- ident Roosevelt’s ~Secretary, | cutive secretary. Hayes, Minor and Kelly with 24 esident authorizes me to others, many of them prominent in {advise you that he has recommend- | the city administration, are named ed an appropriation of not to exceed in the extraordinary grand jury re- $200,000 to be made avallable by port as members of a “powerful, July 1 for the proposed Seattle-| ruthless and corrupt group,” charged Juneau air mail route, | with defrauding the city. | Hayes declined to make any com- Somilar information was receiv-| ment. ed by The pire yesterday via| - cere— Associated Press from W‘thhlllgtvn.‘Explnre[ Predicls Talmadge Seeks Eng of White Rule U. S. Senate Seat| .ccxoiimm e Comparing the Japanese invasion b 2 s of China to the world-shaking con- _ATLANTA, Ga., May 20—Former o ets of Genghis Khan and Tam- Gov. Eugene Talmadge has 8D- enane Dr, Syen Hedin, famous nounced his candidacy for the Unit-| gweqich explorer, said: “The reign ed States Senate against Senator|or the white race in the Far Esst Walter F. George. is coming to an early and definite Talmadge, defeated two years ago| end. No one can foresee what con- when he ran for the Senate on an sequences this will have for Europe. anti-New Deal platform, indicated The entire world is under the m: he would make “big business” a|fluence of war psychosis.” target in this campaign | e S . ——— John Sargent, American Henry Fielding, 18th century Eng-| was born lxtx';lnme Ttaly, nnd% grounds. An Anchorage flier also hand toward the Senate. “It h\s Jones averages: industrials 114.99, s up sluice boxes and are said to be brought the same report. (Continued on Page Six) rails 2190, utilities 19.15, lish novelist, was at one time justice| ycated in Italy, Germany and in taking out various amounts of gold.| (Continued on Page 6) lh! the peace for Westminister. Prance. 500. He made his escape. | 1§