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

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ™ VOL. LIL, NO. 7815. fiINEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938. BODY OF KIDNAPED CASH BOY FOUND NERIAL PATROL ONLY SKELETON DN INSURGENTS “REMAINS OF 5- i " JAPANESE ARE Emerging From Extended Co:na= AGAIN RAIDING CANTON SECTOR War Planes Return Over South China Metrop- olis for 13th Day AMERICAN PROTEST IS MADE AT TOKYO Bombing of—E:dowed Uni- versity Is Declared to Be Unwarranted (By Associated Press) Japanese war planes returned again to the Canton area for the thirteenth consecutive day. Three railway stations south of the South China metropolis were bombed but according to advices no bombs were dropped on the city itself where previous raids have killed or wounded more than 8,000 persons. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew, in Tokyo, today asked the Japanese Government to take urgent meas- ures to stop the bombing of non- combatant property in China. The American State Department announces that the Ambassador was instructed to tell the Japanese For-‘ cign Office that the attack by Japa- nese war planes on the American endowed Lingnam University yes- terday was absolutely unwarranted. Ambassador Grew is said to have told the Japanese Foreign Office that the University campus is far removed from the scene of military operations. Three Japanese bombs were dropped on the edge of the University’s athletic field, only 200 yards from the residences of the Americans. At the fime of the bombing there were 37 Americans at the University. | Naval Sfilfidmn 0f 6 Air Boats Come to Alaska Lieut. Com-(;l.:iConley Will Leave San Diego Monday SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 9.— Under command of Lieutenant Commander D. L. Conley, six Naval air boats of Patrol Squadron 7 will leave here early next Monday for a nonstop flight to the Seattle Naval Air Base. Next month the squadron will fly to the new Fleet Air Base at Sitka, Alaska. The personnel includes seven of- ficers and forty men. | .- — Many Juneau High Mary Ellen Reardon An attack of encephalitis, or slee| ping sickness, last March 18, fol- lowing a siege of measles left pretty two-year-old Mary Ellen Rear- don of Chicago in a coma. her strange twiligl ComptrollerGeneral? Rep. Lindsay C. Warren (above), ardent New Dealer, of North Caro- lina, is reported the administra- tion’s choice as Comptroller General of the United States, a 15-year-term position. Warren was a co-leader in the ill-fated fight for the reorgani- zation bill. LINDBEREHS 60 T0 ISLAND OFF Gradsjl Alaska Many graduates of the Juneau BRITISH SHORE High School are scheduled to re-} turn from the States on the steam- | er Alaska, leaving Seattle, Satur- | day, June 11. 1 They include: Walter P. Scott, | Jr., who has been attending the | University of Washington as a| LONDON, June 9.—Col. and Mrs sophomore; Bernice Lovejoy, Who | Charles A. Lindbergh and children for the past nine months has been | today left their Longbarn English taking a sercetarial course at the | home, where they have lived for Seattle Secretarial School; James | the past two and a half years. Last Week Attended Royal Ball; Dressed in Knee Breeches The child is gradually recovering from ht sleep, however. WPAFUNDSTO ~ AID BUILDING AT BALL PARK Work on New Grandstand Will Be Started Next Mon- day—Will Cost $5,000 An allotment of $2,240 has been made by the Works Progress Ad- ministration to be used on the $5,- 000 improvement project for the Firemen's baseball park, according to notification to the Governor’s of- fice today. The WPA funds will go mainly for labor. The Fire Depart- ment will provide the balance of the $5,000. Work on the new undertaking will start next Monday, according to Architect Herb Redman. The plans call for a three-section frame grandstand on concrete footing with corrugated iron roof and walls. It will have a seating capacity of 375 and will include rest rooms, stor- age and change rooms for the play-' ers and the dugouts. The stand will be erected around the corner at Ninth and E streets ADVANCED NOW Continued Bombings of| British, French Ships | Is Arousing Ire INTERNATIONAL FLEET IS SUGGESTED FOR SEA Mussolint M—a;'—_Be Asked to Use Influence to Put Stop to “‘Piracy” (By Associated Press) New Spanish Insurgent bombard- ments of British and French mer- | chant ships in the Mediterranean | have piled high the fuel smoulder- |ing of British and French resent-| ment which is giving an impetus to the move for an International aerial patrol to curb the “piracy.” | Five persons were killed aboard RELIEF MONEY mprovements UNION TROUBLES IN TERRITORY IS Authorized for COMING TO HEAD NOW EXHAUSTED laska Harbors IN CALIFORNIA | the French freighter Brisbane out- | side of Denai, Spain. The dead in- | cludes an observor of the European Non-intervention Committee. | The British freighter Isadore has | been bombed in the harbor of Castle Lon de Laplana but no casualties are | reported. | Great Britain has been the hard est hit in the recent wave of as saults on shipping. The British, it is reported, are advancing the plan for an International aerial Patrol in the Mediterranean danger zone. The patrol was halted last fall when attacks by submarines were | stopped when an International pa- ‘trol of battieships was established. | Tt is said in London that a pro- | posal might be made direct to Pre-| | mier Mussolini to use his irifluence | to bear on the Spanish Insurgents to cease bombardments of shipping. THIRD SHIP BOMBED MADRID, June 9.—Spanish In- surgent air raiders have bombed a third ship today off Benica, near Castle Lon de Laplana, killing 12 persons and wounding 19. The ship has not been immed- iately identified. The attack was the most serious /in three such bombardments. SRR | causgi Tragedy Man Is Shot Down on City | Street—Slayer Surrend- ers and Confesses | HOQUIAM, Wash., June 9.—Wil-| HALF-WAY MARK IS on Columbia river, Washington. Negotiations Being Made for Loans to Carry Over Until Legislature The $133,000 set aside by the last| Territorial Legislature for the re lief -af destitutios and further re lief of needy and indigent has been exhausted and relief payments for the present by the Public Welfare office have been discontinued, it was announced today. Gov. John W. Troy, Chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, said today that negotiations were being made with the banks for loans up to $50,000 to care for relief until the Legislature meefs again in January. The relief demand has fallen off since seasonal employ- ment started and it is not expected to be heavy during the summer months. The Welfare office said that actually there were only 350 on the relief rolls in the Territory during May. However, earlier in the spring and during the winter figures mounted to from 1,000 to 1,200. Juneau with around 250 has the largest demand. A total of $198,000 was originally appropriated by the Legislature for relief. Of this amount, the extra- ordinary session set aside $65,000 for school bus transportation, leaving $133,000. A sum of $403,000 was ap- propriated for old age allowance or back of what is now left field,|ljam S. Warren, 37, was shot to,but no part of this money can be thus making a change in the layout|geath on the street last night and | used for direct relief. of the diamond. A board fence also is being erect- a few minutes later Paul Buttry, | Hoquiam millworker, surrendered | Another source of relief is $5,000 quarterly which is distributed ed around the park, making it a 5 the police and said he did the through the four Federal courts of modern center, baseball and SR B WBmén to Shoot At Indoor Range The Annie Oakley branch of the| Juneau Rifle and Pistol Club will| fire over the indoor range tomor-| row night at the Southeast Alaska | Fair Building at 8 o'clock. | Over a dozen women have been | turning out regularly, club omclals| said, and sufficient interesi has trouble. | | recreation shooting which followed family | Alaska. This money comes from the Alaska Pund which is made up of business licenses taxes collected in the Territory outside of mr-urpofi‘ WASHINGTON, June 9. — Tha Rivers and Harbors bill approved by Congress contains the following | items in Alaska: $60,000 for Ikiulik, $105,000 for Skagway and $68,000 for Valdez. | The bill however carried no ap- propriation. —e,—— FOR TO LEAV FOR WEST ON JULY SEVENTH Will Visit in Tennessee, Ok- lahoma, Texas and California WASHINGTON, June 9. — The ‘White House today announced that if conditions permitted, President| Roosevelt will leave for his western | trip on July 7. His first speech will be made in | Covington, Ky., on July 8. President Roosevelt will keep a long planned engagement in Mariet- ta, Ohio, where he will speak in connection with the 150th anniver- sary of the Northwest Territory. No {urther details of the trip are an- nounced. Tentative arrangements have been made for visits in Tennessee, Okla- homa, Texas and California MRS. A. HELLENTHAL, MOTHER OF JUNEAU FAMILY, DIES IN EAST REACHED on Grand Coulee dam, $114,000,000 federal project Dam will be 530 feet high, contain 11,250,000 cubic yards of concrete, Pacific Maritime Federation Delegates March Out of Convention SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 9.— Leaders of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific are fighting to re- store unity after a walkout of dele- gates when two of twelve voting members went out the the door dur- ing the convention now being held. | Unions called a mass meeting of all San Prancisco maritime work- ers as a strategy move, it is said, to win support of Federation rank and file membership of the unions whose leaders bolted the convention because of what was termed anin- sistence upon CIO affiliation. After withdrawal of four delegates of the independent Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, two delegates of the Masters, Mates and Pilots’ Union withdrew. This action was taken after the San Francisco local of the Masters, Mates and Pilots voted officially to quit the Federation. The Masters, Mates and Pilots’ Union is an affiliate with the Found- ing Union’s Federation. The MMP local declared they were severing connections with the Maritime Fed- eration of the Pacific because of a refusal of the convention to seat delegates from the AFL longshore- men’s union, With voting ranks at the conven- tion thinned, Federation leaders moved to open the door to the CIO Alaska Cannery Workers’' Union, and Shipwrights, Joiners and Caulkers. Immediate action was delayed be- cause by-laws require a favorable | ated cities. This fund is apportioned L. Gray, freshman at Oregon State] College; Hilding Haglund, who has | just completed his third year at Whitman College; George Folta, freshman at the University of Washington; Doris Freeburger, a first year student at Reed College, in Portland; Lewis Taylor, who en- Friends said they presumbaly had gone to lonely Illic Island off the coast of Britainy. Lindgergh bought z the club. | the island in April. o ) Only last week the Lindgerghs at- : wfr:‘:l:] o;filfier;esuggi%e;wdmte}rb clv}v]s: tended Great Britain’s Royal Court| "~ | Ball and the Colonel wore knee Pights to shot at the range, per-| breeches. haps two nights a week instead of | been shown to warrant the organi- | zation of a women’s group within rolled at the University of Wash- ington last fall as a freshman; Johnny Doolin, freshman at Gon- zaga College; and Johnny Winth- ers and John Satre, who have been attending school in Everett, Wash- ington. 89, Climbed Tree Daily; Fall Fatal FREMONT, Wis., June 9.—Every morning John Dickie, eighty-nine- year-old Waupaca County veteran! of the Civil War, climbed a tree, House Okays More Funds For G-Men WASHINGTON, June 9.—An ad- ditional appropriation of - $308,000 to help the Nation’s G_,-ue_n in the war on ki lnapers and other es, has won approval of the Ho | | apple tree to trim it. | afterward. one, because of the number of/ women turning out. ———.——— Nnthin_g Doing SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 9.—| The Maritime Federation Conven-| tion in. session here took no im-| mediate action on the proposal| read from the United Fishermen'’s balance and fell. A broken rib punc- Alaska. The suggestion was that|Hillman, Miss Eli tured a lung and he died an hour the meeting be called during the Miss Mary Hastings, and Mrs. fishing season in Alaska. Dactar's Advice INDIANAPOLIS, June 9. — The average business man works too hard, rests too little and eats too much, Dr. E. Wallace McAdam of New York told the seventy-second annual Indiana Institute of Homeo- pathy today. Dr. MacAdam, professor of medi- cine at the New York Homeopathic College, advised: “Keep thin and take a little time off every after- noon for a brief siesta.” o eee— MRS. E. SWANSON IS ENTERTAINED In honor of Mrs. Emma Swanson, a shower was given last evening by Mrs. Clifford Swap at her home in the Fosbee Apartments. Refreshments were served by the hostess, and carnations were used as decorations for the evening. Guests for the affair include: Mrs, Ed Jahoda, Mrs. Charles Pet- erson, Mrs. I. Popejoy, Mrs. Arthur Keep Thi, Rest, in his orchard to put up-the Stars Union of Ketchikan suggesting a Bringdale, Mrs. J. C. Michaelson, and Stripes. Then he climbed an | unity meeting be held hetween the Mrs. Stanley Hill, Mrs. Sid Bren- He lost his AFL and CIO unions working in|nan, Mrs. Doris Swap, Mrs. ‘William izabeth Terhune, James Ramsay. for roads, schools and relief, 10 per- cent being allotted for the latter. vote by three of the Federation’s four Councils. SRR ST LS Mrs. A. Hellenthal, mother of John A. Hellenthal and Theodore The relief prablem at the present Hellenthal of Juneau, and Judge time is nmot unsurmountable, the!Simon Hellenthal of Valdez died| Governor said, adding that he was today at her home in Holland, satisfied the Welfare Board would|Michigan, according to word re- be able to care for the situation|ceived in Juneau today. with the money obtained from the| Mrs. Hellenthal, who was 82 years banks, |old, had been suffering from a cold — - for the last two weeks, and due to DEPUTY SHO IN MAN HUNT Officer. Killed by One of Five Escaped Convicts her age had failed to overcome it With her at the time of her Who Surrenders and Walter Hellenthal, a son who | lives in Michigan. | Judge Hellenthal, now on a float- | RAY, Arizona, June 9. — Jack ing court cruise aboard the U. S. Hickox, Deputy Sheriff, was shot C. G. cutter Haida, and Theodore and killed by James Bailey, one of Hellenthal, in Seattle on a v five convicts who escaped Tuesday tion, have been notified of their from the State Prison Farm, near mother’s death. | Florence. Mrs. Hellenthal had visited in Juneau several times since her | |sons came to Alaska, and has many | friends here. Her last trip North was made three years ago when MANILA, June 9.—Flaming lava she and her daughter spent several in increasing volume poured out Weeks visiting other members of from the crafer of Mayon volcano her family in Juneau. yesterday, on the seventh day of In spite of her advanced age, | the present eruption. |Mrs. Hellenthal had been leading The mighty mountain of firc & busy and aciive life, interested belched out the lava in streams. in her family and friends. Though death were Miss Gertrude Hellen-| thal, of Chicago, and her daughter, | Practically All Towns at| Base of Mayon, Philip- pines, Deserted Following the shooting, Bailey surrendered to a party of deputized citizens. KIDDIES LOSE LIVES IN FIRE Practically all towns and vil- she had not been well during the| RAINIER, Wash, June 9.—Dale lages near the base of Mayon are Past winter, her illness preceding deserted today after a night of ten her passing was brief and her | violent *eruptions since the crater death comes as a shock to those| awakened last Friday night after in Juneau who were among her ten years of inactivity. ,rrtends. | Hull, aged 3 years, and Bobby Hull, aged 1% years, were burned to death last night when fire de- stroyed the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hull. YEAR-OLD LAD FBI Agents Make Gruesome Discovery in Dense Thicket MINISTER’S SON COLLECTED MONEY 21-Year-Old Truck Driver Admits Extorting $10,000 Ransom MIAMI, Fla., June 9.—The body of kidnaped five-year- old James Bailey Cash, Jr., was found three minutes after midnight today, a mile from | his home at Princeton and im- mediately further search was called off. With the gruesome discov- ery, Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation agents disclosed they had recovered nearly all of the $10,000 ransom money and had a written confession from a suspect that he had collected the ransom. The prisoner, Franklin Pierce MeCall, 21, truck driver and son of a minister, was a former tenmant in the Cash apartment house. Makes Confession J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the 'FBI, announced that McCall has confessed to writ- |ing three ransom notes and icollecl:img the money from the kidnaped boy’s father on a lonely road under glare of headlights. McCall is said, however, not to have made any admission as to further participation in the crime. | Sheriff D. C. Colwan said McCall, without any show of emotion, led him, together | with Hoover and a squad of |agents, to a dense thicket where the body of the boy had been left without any effort at burial. Body Is Found Little remained but the skeleton of the little boy and fragments of pajamas the five-year-old towhead wore when seized from his bed on May 28. Insects and hot weather are responsible for only the skele- ton remaining. It was McCall who drew Cash’s attention to the third ransom note, two nights after the abduction, say- ing he had found it on the floor of Cash’s apartment, and that the abductor had apparently slipped it under the door. McCall joined with a volunteer | posse at the very outset of the search, hunting for clues over the very ground where the body of the boy and the ransom money was found. NOT SOLVED YET MIAMI, Fla, June 9.—J. Edgar ' Hoover announced this afternoon that the Cash kidnaping and slay- ing case is not completely solved. “We have the kidnaper, or one of the kidnapers,” said Hoover, re= ferring to McCall. It is also revealed that all of the ransom money has not been recov- ered, some of the 1,500 bills still being missing. PR S R D —— | sTock QuoraTions | — - & NEW YORK, June 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 87%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 46%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 30, International Harvester 54, Kennecott 30, New York Central 12%, Southern Pacific 11%, United States Steel 43, Cities Service 8%, Pound $4.95. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 115.74, rails 20.81, utilities 19.25.