The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIL, NO. 7802. * “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1938. TROUBLE FEARED, BERING SEA WATERS WORK T0 START Wage, Hour Measure Is Passed STRONG pguTEsflzzino Found Dead By House; Southern Democrats Lose Fight for Minima Scale) HOTEL BARANOF; WASHINGTON, May 25. — The House has passed the wage and hour MADE AGAINST © / and 40 cents thereafter. | in Wrecked Plane, Calif "”'i"‘JAP INVASION < IS CAUSE FOR REQUEST, ARMS L] | bill by a vote of 314 to 97 and sent Will Be Constructed on it to the Senate where its reception The minimum hours are 44 hours | a week for the first year, 42 hours | the second year and 40 hours a week | 3 A, M, CLOSING [ roperty Owners on Lower Codfisher (%aplAiu Radioes Franklin Street, Extend- ing from Second to First is uncertain. | The Southern Democrats failed to get amendments giving the south| :_:;:l'acxrl:ix;m».vith time and unv-hnllli Fg‘anklin St. Oppose Stay- ing Open After 1 A.M. Virtually all industries are af[oct-} Brother in Seattle a lower wage minima. | ed except fisheries, packing and| | As announced several weeks ago| The bill provides for a minima of | canning of farm products in the| strong protess agaiast permitting’ | TR in The Empire, Juneau is to have 25 cents an hour for the first year, | area of production, child movie stars, | peverage dispensaries to remain op- ‘lNTlMATES ACTION a new hotel and further announce- ment was made today that work o construction will start in about two weeks and will be rushed to com- pletion for opening on January 1. The new hotel, as announced by the organizers and promoters, Wal- lis S. George and J. J. Meherin, will be named the Baranof. The Baranof will be located o Franklin Street, extending from First to Second, opposite the Al- aska Electric Light and Power Company’s building. The Baranof will be a six-story reinforced concrete structure with three pent houses atop. In addition to a coffee shop, there will be nine shops and stores with spacious lobby and dining room on the ground floor. Three floors will contain 100 rooms for transients. Each room 130 cents an hour for the second |processing of perishable farm n | vear, 35 cents for the third year|sea food commodities. and | on in Juneau after 1 am. was heard at a public hearing held last night FUNERALS HELD, TWO VICTIMS OF BORDER CLASH Fifty Thousand Sudeten! Germans Pay Tribute in | Tense Atmosphere EGER, Czechoslovakia, May 25.— Fifty thousand Sudeten Germans, lining the streets in this ancient| by the Police Committee of the City | Council in the Council Chamber. | The protest was in reply to the pro- | posed new liquor ordinance which is now before the Council and which | would permit all beverage places to remain open until 3 a.m. during the | summer months. | Judge H. B. LeFevre appeared in |ehalf of 37 petitioners from lower | Franklin street, mostly property |owners in that section, urging the | Council not to permit places to | keep open after 1 a.m. and asking that no music be allowed in dispen- | saries, particularly in the morning | hours up to noon because of the dis- 3lurlmnce to persons warking nights Plans for an addition to the Gas-| who sleep during those hours. tineau Hotel were made known to- Bessie M. Reeder, operator of the day when announcement was made Northern Beer Hall, complained of GASTINEAU TO T0 ADD THIRTY HOTEL ROOMS Option on Adjoining Build- ing Exercised to Allow New Structure near Saugus, Cal, with all nine motor switches had not been cut St. Paul, Minn., for delivery to the Northwest Airlines, huge plane was flying low in a thick fog and the pilot was unaware of an impending crash because the Charred and twisted wreckage of a Lockheed airliner was recently found on the side of Mount McDill, The giant liner was enroute from Burbank, € occupants dead. Accerding to off. Gasoline tanks had exploded w shows first rescue party to reach the scene of the disaster. JAPANESE ARE Mayor Proclaims PLANE CRASHES ; TO BE TAKEN NOW |Coast Gualfi)fficials Re- ’ ply Alaska Patrol Am- | ple Protection BULLETIN — WASHIN G- TON, May 25.— Commander Merlin O'Neill, Coast Guard Operations Executive, said that in face of reports of a new Jap- anese-American fishing contro- versy in Alaskan waters, he be- lieves that three coast guard vessels now in the Bristol Bay area are quite capable of main- taining order. The State Department’s most recent information is to the effect that Japanese crab fish- ermen have appeared off the Al- aska coast but no salmon ves- to observations made by aviators, the hen the transport plunged. Photo will have bath and shower. The town, bowed in silent tribute as the|by Wilbur Wester, manager of the| gisturbances after 1 a.m. if open 1 5 two upper floors, the fifth and | coffins of two of their fellows, killed | hptel, that the Gastineau Hotel| pours were permitted. | sels. . sixth, will consist of 31 modern in last Saturday's border trouble, | Company had exercised its option| wmps J. E. Click of the W.CT.U, | Delegate Dimond also ex- i apartments. passed in a solemn procession. Each|on the building below the hotel now | the Rey. O. L. Kendall and several | pressed the opinion the Japa- | Hotel rooms and apartments, as well as the pent houses, will be served by two elevators. There coffin bore a wreath from Hitler. | Konrad Henlein, leader of the| Sudetens, making the funeral eulo- | | occupied by the Gastineau Liquor|gthers appeared against the pro- Company, Juneau Melody Shop and| poseq new ordinance which in its Dr. Howe Vance. | present form effects both beer par- ' NEARCONTROL ~ Saturday Poppy IN FLAMES, TEN nese boats reported in the bay, are crabbers. will be a third elevator to take |gy, said: “Your sacrifice should be care of baggage and apartment de- & permanent, silent sign for us.” Studies are being made and plans| drawn to enlarge the present Gas- lors and liquor stores. Attorney M. E. Monagle, repre- liveries. g Articles of incorporation are com- | pleted and will be filed within a few days. The new corporation will be in- corporated for $350,000, of which $100,000 will be six per cent pre- - OFCHINARLR. {Drive Against Keifeng Re- ported Halted by Chi- nese Resistance The funeral services were for|tineau Hotel by an addition con- copia. 12 peer parlor proprietors ors, George Hoffman and Nikolas|sisting of 30 rooms. When complet- urged passage :)f fhe nrdxpnar‘x)c:pe:- Boehm, who were shot last Satur-|ed, the hotel will have a total of 115 mitting liquor places to keep open | day as they swept past the police | rooms, 56 of them with private baths. until 3 am. on grounds that boats }barracks near the German frontier. | The addition to the building will| . s 1 2 3 come in at all hours during the sum- | A tense atmosphere prevailed dur-|include a modern automatic eleva- mer months ‘and the toutists' comé ing the services and procession and | tor. 2 - e | ashore expecting to find these plac SEATTLE, May 25—George W. Shields, Secretary and Treasurer | of the Pacific Coast Codfish Com- pany, is prepared to dispatch two dozen high powered rifles and am~ munition, requested by his brother, Capt. John E. Shields, of the cod- fisher Sophie Christensen, now in Bering Sea, to combat the reported nayilluneau‘ ABUAED KILLED | Airliner Dowanear Land-| gion Memorial Poppy | —Bodies Burned terred stock and $250,000 common all shops were closed, black flags| N. Lester Troast is architect in| = e SHANGHAI, May 25.—The Jap-| ' i | | tock. Par value of both will be | fluttering from windows. | cnarge o the: Gastinesiis new. tro-| % Jpen. e also. Magid. S ug) R May 25.—The Jap-| o0 parry 1. Lucas today lssued| CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 2. —|!ivasion of the Japanese fisher- i stock. Par value of both wi e | ? it beer parlors have most of their busi. anese spokesman announces that he foll oldniati 2| Te ehin diaa 1 4 | men. $100 per share, preferred stock be- | ject, thg plans of which include the ness after show time In the evening| the Nippon forces are gaining com- the lufluwmg proclamation, naming | Ten persons die uva night in the: Shiel s i3 1 ing callable at $105 | MORE TROUBLE ARISES remodeling and rearranging of the [He8 AUEr TR O .Péq o @ slbae | pletagontrol of ' the' Tiantsin-pu. | DAk Haturdhy geEdghy Day injeragh of a United Alr Lines pland/ o s "‘:1 ‘t‘l““"w to reveal how the 3 i, is shorf require 5 8 lentsin-Pu- S hich fell i > rifles and the amunition wi ; | A. W. Quist has charge of con- _BERLIN, May 25 A report that|hotel lobby. e kow raflway and expect 'to wmm‘h.}unmu. : r | which fell in flames only eight mlles;north % ion will I_:e.sent struction. Bids will be called for Czechoslovakia military planes have —_ | i ondieor: of the 800 mile link later “Whereas, in the World War of | from the scheduled landing field , saylng he feared if it was Those represented by Monagle OF of thi ‘ 11917-1918 the young men of Juneau here, known they might be seized. by him for plumbing, heating, elec- tric wiring, etc., and Juneau firms will be given an opportunity to figure on all sub-contracts. flown over German territory caused the German Government to lodge a strong protest at Praha. The official German News agency reported five alleged border viola- | and asking longer open hours during | this month. the summer are: Charles Miller, The drive against Chris Bailey, W. T. Douglas, Jack claimed to be progressing but it Kristan, J. J. Stocker, M. Bocatch, |is also said the Chinese have halted Kaifeng is 3-Year Residence |gave their services to the defense| Gasoline fed flames shot into the| Willlam Hicker, Secretary of the of the United States in an exalted |sky and it was more than three|Aldska Fishermens' Union commen- spirit of patriotism and some were | hours before fireman removed all|ded the actiof and said: “We won't called to sacrifice their lives in that|of the bodies from the wreckage, fool around any longer with this . v B tions by Czech planes within the May Be Req""ad David Davis, Sam Gazalof, Emilio the advance about ten miles east of | gopyice; | all bodies being badly burned. | Japanese situation. The fishermen 1 \pasn 24 hours. 3 Galao, Burford and Botelho, Matt the goal. | “Whereas, many others were The plane was directly on the|are angry and will take action to HnusE vnTEs Dr. Ernest Esenlohr, Nazi Minis- . Loukka and J. W. Kearney. 23 = B R ” called upon to sacrifice health and | course and witnesses said it was in|drive the Japanese out. Our men ter to Praha, laid the matter be!orel Tu Get L'ce“se There was no opposition to the strength, with resulting suffering| flames before the crash. are going north and will be ready Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta, who proposed new fireworks ordinance LuYALIsTS UN and hardships to themselves and| The dead are: for action.” lNcREASE FUR Sl rATat auH Radeal ghak AL wheih would prohibit the sale and | families whieh continue to this day;| James L. Brandon, pilot, of Chi-| The La Merced, the Alaska South- everything will be done to prevent a e |shooting of all kinds of fireworks | “Whereas, the memory of these|cago, who had 19 years’ experience. ern Packin, Company’s i i recurrence. £ . Changes m Gamc Laws PI‘O‘ within the city limits. patriotic sacrifices should ever be| A. S. Merrifield, copilot, of Chi-|cannery, is iosted ts s;‘;lsdufigzngfi | German anger flared in what the posed in Measures NOW On the Police committee are | kept fresh in the minds of patriotic| cago. day and company officials said they | newspapers called, brazen provoca- Councilman Henry Messerschmidt, citizens, while fullest aid should be, Miss Mildred Macek, stewardess, have not been apprised of the new | tions of the Czechs at a time when Before Congress John McCormick and Sam Feldon, extended to those still within the|of Chicago. | difficulties and as far as they knew o | Germany is observing the strictest ‘ | Chairman Messerschmidt presiding FHANG |N |reach of human aid; L. Arthur Doty, of Watertown, the La Merced will carry no arms. » Del te Di d 0O | reserve. WASHINGTON, May 25.— Sen- last night. The committee’s recom- | | “And, Whereas, the wearing of Mass. Hicker said the Unfon has heard elegate Lhmon ver-| PSR Pl L ator Lewis B. Schwellenback of mendations on both the above or- i ¢ | the Memorial Poppy both honors the| C. F. Lickel, of New York City. |that 15 Japanese craft are within comes Ob]ectlons to Pro- | Washington state has introduced in dinance is expected to be presented[B- Offensi in Month | dead and aids the disabled and de-| R. P. Morrell, of New York City. |eight miles of the American shore | d Wi 0 Fls“lNG BUAT the Senate a companion bill to to the Council at the June 3 meet- 1ggest ensive In Vonths | pendents; John Rostuen, of New York City. and making trips to shore “whe posal an ms Out | Alaska Delegate Dimond’s, making| S g Is Reported by Gov- | “Therefore, I, H. T. Lucas, Mayor| J. R. Moffett, of Chicago. |one is looking.” n no i \ changes in the Alaska Game Com- P |of the City of Juneau, do hereby Richard C. Lewis, of Ansonia,| The action of Shields i By J. J. ECKLES | g |mission Act. The major provisions BIM ernment Forces proclaim Saturday, May 28, Poppy| Connecticut. th dending bE rifles sn it b Secretary to Delegate Dimond | § |in the proposed amendment to the | e Day in the City of Juneau and urge| E. H. Vedlen, of Los Angeles, Cal,|tion to the north e; find g WASHINGTON, May 9.—(Spec- Act are requiring a three years resi- | | HENDAYE, May 25—The Gov- all citizens to observe the day by| Douglas Aircraft test pilot. of the following od_owed R o cial Correspondence) — When the dence in the Territory before being | ernment’s drive to crack the Insur-| wearing the American Legion and g his brother, Ca E Em s‘:‘gm'fl fram bill to amend the Federal Ald Road able to get a trapprs license and gent front at Catalonia, has devel-| American . Legion Auxiliary Mem- BOTH ENGINES FAIL o & el i Act, which authorizes appropria-| permitting the Commission to own| |oped into the biggest offensive in orial Poppy. QEEVELAND, : Ktiase flfmn boa‘;’vered with: Jape p* tions for construction of forest high-| o and operate its own airplanes. months. | “(Signed) H. I. LUCAS" ‘mul»:; * p,,'vd“,’“‘y R e of the Blackg}mls u: i roads, and trails, was considered in S Is T: k Cl U In the meantime, the House Ter-| Fn“ SE sl UN The Loyalists have hurled a large| IR .58 Patienon, Ereal un_ of the UAL, i and there are no the House May § for amendments, OteP s Taken to Llear Up| o o o es approved the| orchkatt s it Yoy potnis bn Fran-| [said the twin motored liner's en-|Cutters around. We have a God-giv- D e Ovarhinof Revort- s Committee approve e [ Y P i | . | gines “suffered simultaneous power €D instinct to shoot straight. Ship | p po! Dimond bill to amend laws protect- — s lines In northeast Spain. | ew a Inp unfl | failure” just before the crash. one dozen high powered rifles ana ed the insertion of an amendment in the bill to increase the amount authorized for expenditure on for- est roads in Alaska from $400,000 to| $500,000 for each of the fiscal years| beginning July 1, 1939, and July 1, 1940. | Spirited objection was voiced in the House toward increasing the| ed Japanese Seiner LOS ANGELES, Cal, May. 25. — Pederal Judge Paul McCormick has issued an order for the seizure of the fishing boat Three Star, a 77- foot purse seiner registered under the name of an American born Jap- . . | The Government forces claim im- No Time to Hold Hearings portant gains at the Balaguer bridgehead where fierce fighting has raged ing game and wild life in Alaska. ‘The measure prohibits Filipinos and aliens as well as non-resident Am-| Delegate Says in Aband- erican citizens in the Territory from | . & obtaining hunting and trapping lic-| oningEffort toGet Funds | Loyaiist pianes are reported in- | Teildeg enses. creasing activity on the Franco col- Dimond said the bill was designed| WASHINGTON, May 25—Dele- umns, to prevent outsiders from “cleaning| g2t Anthony J. Dimond has aban- out all the game in one region and|doned his efforts to gain passage . Station Going In - MTaku Lodge Patterson said the investigation of Plenty of ammunition.” wreckage showed that “neither of Capt. Shields also asked that the |the two engines were operating at Sa3me armament be sent to the com- the moment of the impact’ H'e Pany’s schooner Charles R. Wilson. said this was the first time the ocm. | pany experienced simultaneous poti-| PECLARES COAST GUARD o TRt | AMPLE FOR PROTECTION moving on somewhere else.” |at this session of the bill authoriz- ] funds that would be available ior‘ United States Attorney Norman e Diviaiod f the’ ookst. PIE the Territory, but in the debate that| followed the Delegate pointed out| that Alaska residents pay the same} Federal taxes, including that on| gasoline, which residents in the States pay; that $600,000 could well be used in keeping up the road building program that has been fol- | lowed in Alaska during the past| four years, and that the Territory was in every way entitled to $500,000 at the very least. Calling attention to the great resources available for| development in Alaska, but which/ require roads for that development, and emphasizing that he was not| asking for favors but only for what| the Territory is rightfully entitled to, he said— “It would be out of character for| this House to refuse to agree to the| Neukom said the craft is owned in reality by a Japanese syndicate and some other aliens. Judge McCormick ordered that any alien interests in the boat be| ¥ forfeited and also ordered that the ownership claimed by the Three Star be wholly American owned or the craft will be forfeited to the Gov- ernment. A recently enacted law prohibits alien ownership of American reg- istered vessels. —_——eee—— —— % l BASEBALL TODAY | The following are scores of base- bal games played this afternoon in the two major leagues as received P |ing two million dollars for public g 4 Works in Alaska. It has been ap- | proved by the House and is now be- | sTock QuoTATIONS | fore the Senate Territories commit- tee. NEW YORK, May 25 — Closing| “There has been a good deal of quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| OPPosition to the bill in Alaska stock today is 9%, American Can|Chambers of Commerce which seem 86, American Light and Power 5, !0 be generally opposed to it,” Di- Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel| Mond said. “There simply would not 42%, Commonwealth and Southern|be time to arrange hearings and give notice to interested persons and 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 28%, International Hflrve::-ig“’e those persons in Alaska time ter 50, Kennecott 29%, New York | to get here.” Central 11%, Southern Pacific 10%,| The Delegate said he introduced United States Steel 41%, Cities Ser- | the bill hoping to enable Alaska w vice 9, Pound $4.94. obtain Federal funds under the new WAY CLEARED FOR SALMON SEASON NOW Unions andmka Packers Association Sign Long Delayed Pacts SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, May 25.— The way is cleared for some 3,000 salmon workers to sail for Alaska this month. Eleven Unions and the \Equipment Being Set Up by | Alaska Commissioner | to Aid Navigation —— | SEATTLE, May 25—Capt. R. W. | Dempwolf, Commander of the Seat- B. C. AIRPLANE declared there is no necessity for | Alaska fishermen to arm themselves | with rifles to combat the reported |Japanese invasion in Bering Sea | fishing. Capt. Dempwolf said the Alaska Patrol is fully equipped and of suf- | Work on instaliation of a radio- phone station at Taku Lodge on | Taku River will start either tomor- | row or the next day under the di- | ficient size to protect American fish- | rection of Radio Engineer G. E. Gou- | e |ing rights. | die, it was announced today by . | Capt. Dempwolt referred t Three Others Injured But snicias, of the Sophie régfl:mfis?,fj | Sheldon Simmons, Secretary of the Alaska Aeronautics and Communi- One Walks 25 Miles |as a “headline hunter,” and added | cations Commission. The station is SC Ad that the “Bering Sea Patrol is to decure Al plenty for protection, including the PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., May 25 one of several the Commission pro- big cutter John C. Spencer, which —Alr Engineer Bill Martin, of Van- land is now on the way to Point “I +figured if we could get two million of our own it ought to mean about five million more in Federal funds which would give us a gwd‘coveflnfi conditions for the Alaska Packers Association signed the long ‘delayed contracts last night 1938 spending and lending program. | The Taku Lodge station will be of | 30-watt power and will be used an aid to river and aerial naviga- tion as well as handling commercial | poses to install in the pear future, has an airplane aboard. The North- couver, B.C., hiked 25 miles to here Barrow. Shields wants some head- | including large ones al Pairbanks |and Anchorage. and brought word of a plane crash | lines and is r S geting them bu last Sunday which killed one and take him seriously. As long tndo';‘: injured three others. Japanese stay eight miles off shore up to 1:30 o'clock: National League St. Louis 1; New York 3. Chicago 7; Brooklyn 2. Pittsburgh 1; Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati 1; Boston 2. American League Philadelphia 4; Chicago 7. New York 3; Detroit 1. amendment. The House would be| justified and warranted in granting a much larger sum. I am not asking for generosity but for justice, and| so, judging by past experience, and | remembering the desire of the Mem- bers of this body to deay justly and fairly on all occasions with all of its DR S T 7 7 e (Continued on Page Three) | SUNK N RAID LONDON, May 25. — A dispatch from Valencia said the British freighter Thorpe Hall has been sunk by a Spanish Insurgent plane in a raid and two members of the crew were carried down. his office, start on airport and road programs SCason. we need,” Dimond said. — e — BEN GRIMES RETURNS | | A meeting of the DeMolays will - e DeMOLAYS MEET Ben Grimes, Territorial Sanitar-|be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock al|tor of Customs at Taku port, have | Ously hurt. the Scottish Rite Temple, it was an- | ian, returned from Wrangell on the Northland after a short trip to that| NOunced today by Master Councilor i city in connection with business of | Charles Jenne. All members are 4 *"|urgeat to attend. messages, Simmons said. He said| Dan Miner, of Fort St. James, there is nothing to be di |an operator had not yet been|B.C. a passenger, was killed in th2| the situation. xw am not mm | named for the station, but both | crash. of the Bering Sea Patrol but I know | Mary Joyce, owner of Taku Lodge I Mrs. Allan East, of Fort James. the Guard there is reporting direct- |and J. H. McCann, Deputy Culh-(:-‘flnd Pilot Charles Elliott were seri- )y ¢, Washington, every day, in code, and Washington is being kept fully advised.” William Hicker said the Alaska _— (Continued on Page Six) licenses. & Martin, who was only slightly| PORBREEN UL TS | hurt and was able to mush here Mail stage-coaches were not m.|and secure aid, said a sudden down troduced into England until 1784, | draft caused the crash.