The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7817. s JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPANESE NAVY T0 SAIL UP YANGTZE For Their Babies, a Prize of $375,000 TEXAS TWISTER KILLS THIRTEEN AND INJURES 40 Two Score Homes Shatter- ed in Little Town of Clyde TORNADO MOVES ON TOWN AFTER DUSK National Guardsmen and| Red Cross Mobilize Facilities ‘ CLYDE, Texas, June 11.—A slow| moving tornado late yesterday killed | 13 persons here ard left several missing, while at least 40 persons were known injured, as the twister | whirled off into the night to leave behind a welter of destruction. Two score homes in this West| Texas village were shattered and | the town's 700 population was iso- | lated from the outside world for| several hours as workmen strived | _ \ President and princess Here is Princess Kyra, daughter of the pretender to the non-existent Russian throne and bride of Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson of the former kaiser of Germany, as she appeared with President and Mrs. Roosevelt while the royal couple were visiting at Hyde Park, N. Y. Poultney Bigelow, lecturer and friend of the kaiser, is at the right. Royalty Guests of Roosevelts XGUMPHUM'SE REACHED NOW, WACES, HOURS |Southern Members Give Approval to Proposals— Adjournment Delayed | WASHINGTON, June 11.—8outh- | ern members of the joint Congres- | sional Committee have approved of | all but minor details of the compro- mise wage and hour legislation but leaders have abanhdoned hope for a next Tuesday night adjournmeht | of Congress and merely setting up a goal of winding up some time next week. The compromise would fix 25 cents an hour as a minimum wage | for the first year with no excep- tions. Thirty cents an hour would be the minimum for the second year and after this, Industrial Boards would set up the minimum, advancing to 40 cents as rapidly as possible. All minimum wage would be expected to be reached at the end of seven years. i Three of the four Toronto women who are reported to have won the widely-heralded Canadian baby mara- lines. thon, staged by the will of Charles Vance Millar, are pictured above. This trio, and a fourth, will share in the $500,000 left by Millar to the mother giving birth to the largest number of babies in the past ten years. In the picture, left to right, are Mrs. Alfred Smith, Mrs. Arthur Hollis Timleck and Mrs. John Nagle. The feverishly to restore communication | T E A Wreckage of communication de- layed calls for ambulances, doctors and volunteers from nearby towns. Like a huge and sinister snake the tornado crept toward the town slightly after dusk. Many residents saw the twister coming and scrambled to safety in storm cellars, while othérs gambled | vainly that their houses would with- | stand the shock. fo it z B £ Doctors ~ established emergency;M"rgd'e' /\brahanwon anc stations and the Red Cross mobil-| Frances Wheeler Elected Third Grade Vacancies ized relief facilities while the Na-| tional Guard set up a rolling kit~ | School Superintendent A.B. Phil- lips today announced the election POSITIONS HERE chen. SENATE GROUP MOVES AGAINST ALIEN FISHING Kapowsin, Wash., and Miss Frances Wheeler of Plentywood, Mont., to fill the Third Grade vacancies in erly held by Mrs. Daniel C. Ross, nee Mary Kolasa, and Miss Donie Taylor, who is soon to be married. A Miss Wheeler is a graduate of Approved BIH.WOUH Keep | Teachers State College in North All But Certain American |pakota, the University of Chicago, Citizens Out of Waters and the McPhail Conservatory of Music in Minneapolis. During the WASHINGTON, June 11. — The lf:l'm:rchml e e, g W Senate Territorities Committee has w5 4 approved a bill to prevent aliens I Bias hA"’v‘v-ahB"f‘S‘:h : wetl; k}x:o“;xr: from fishing in Alaskan waters, are, AVIRg, “AgEerly o4 v Douglas, Tanana and Anchorage. after exempting from the provisions any person owing allegiance to the United States. The last year she has been at War Department Secretary Wood- CHERS ARE ALASKAAR NAMED TO FILL ~ SHOPS WILL j Simmons Planning to Buy BE REBULT New Plane in Place of Bellanca ‘ } ‘Total less in yesterday's- fire in| the Alaska Air Transport Shops at| the foot of Main Street, was esti- of Miss Margaret Abrahamson of mated today at close to $20,000, the | bulk of the loss covered by insur- ance. Included in the loss is one Bel- lanca Skyrocket plane, valued at the Juneau Schools teaching staff. $10,000, nearly complete destruction They will take the positions form- of the shop’s structure and miscel- laneous equipment of tools, machin- ery and engine parts. | The radio set KANG, Alaska Air| Transport’s Juneau ground station, was saved, as was the bulk of ex-| pensive machinery in the shops. | Total damage, including airplane, shops and equipment will come “very close” to $20,000, according to T. A. Morgan, owner of the build-| ing housing the Alaska Air Trans-| port Shops and the Commercial Dock warehouse, where damage is as yet unestimated from water oni building materials stored there by | the Columbia Lumber Company. ; Work will begin sometime next| James fluusvéll Refuses to Enter Puliti@iu Mass. Turns Down Offer to Be Candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor_ & WASHINGTON, June 11.—James Roosevelt, son of the President, has rejected the request of a Citizens’ Committee, that he run for Lieuten- ant Governor of Massachusetts. Roosevelt declared: “I feel I have an obligation above all else to re- main at my duties in Washington.” — e EARTH SHOCKS SCARE LONDON PEOPLE TODAY Householders in Brussels Are Shaken, Run Wildly Into Streets ALL CARS, BOATS HEAD FOR SCOUT G_AMPTUMURRUWI ad. Opened Over Week—] end to Permit Visitors —Wanderer Party | | It will be Parents and Visitors’ Day at the Eagle River Boy Scout camp tomorrow and the Bureau of | ing that the Glacier Highway will | be open over the weekend so that | cars may drive to Eagle River Land- {Ing. ; Motorists must drive slow and be | careful over the section now under | repair, the BPR officials warned, | but the road is safe, although rough It will remain open until Tuesday morning when it will again be closed while further blasting is done, it was stated. ‘ A party of Scout parents are leav- | ‘ing on Kinky Bayers' boat Wan- | derer at 7 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing from the Upper City Float for Scout camp. It was announced !his‘ | afternoon that all reservations have been -taken and it will be'impossible | Public Roads announced this morn- | | Empire Progress Edition Will Be Delivqajl Sunday Thirty-Page Paper Full of Information” About Ter- ritory’s Development The Empire’s Annual Progress Edition will be delivered by your carrier Sunday morning. Watch for| In it you will find much factual information about Alaska, its pro- gress in business and Territorial de- velopment. Special articles written for this| edition cover every phase of the| ‘Territory’s life and government. Save your copy to send to a friend | in the States—or call at The Em- pire office for additional copies in special wrappers to send away. ‘This Annual Progress Edition of | ‘The Empire tells the story of Alaska as it is now, in June, 1938. ‘The Customs report in it will show you that shipments to Alaska were| nearly $4,000,000 greater in 1937 than in the previous year and the in- fourth mother to share in the prize is Mrs. John MacLean. DIMOND MAY BE JUNEAU GUEST JULY FOURTH Plans Being Made to Have Warship in Harbor Over Holiday Week-end Plans for a gaia rourtn of July celebration which may include the appearance of Alaska Delegate An- thony J. Dimond as the Indepen- dence Day speaker were outlined last night at a meeting of the Gen- eral Program Committee of Alford John Bradford Post which is spon- soring the annual event. An invita- tion was sent to the Delegate, who is planning to come to Alaska as soon as Congress adjourns, today to be a guest of the city for the cele- bration. Machinery also has been set in motion to have the Navy dis- patch a warship here for the July 12, 3 and 4 weekend, Program Chair- man John E. Pegues announced. The Program Chairman named | the following committees to handle the various details of the celebra- tion: Sports—Ralph B. Martin, Chair- Kapowsin. Superintendent Phillips is sailing ring informed the committee that the War Department thought it highly desirable at this time not to abridge the privileges possessed by Filipinos in view of the in- auguration of the Philippines com- monwealth government. | Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond told the committee Filipinos working in salmon canneries were | destroying game and fish in Al-| for Seattle Monday, accompanied| geer i rebuilding the airplane| by his son, Bob, to spend his g0 ang of the building, accord- vacation Outside. Bob will attend. mgpw Morgan, and wm‘;epmem' a camp at Orcas Island and MI. o hyjiging cost of around $10,000.] Phillips expects to spend much of pjang are not yet complete. his time around Seattle. Sheldon Simmons said today, T “We're looking around for a new| LIFEES ATTEMPT‘mwe to replace the Bellanca, but| we're not out of business. We still | have the seven place Lockheed and the four place Stinson and we're in crease in outbound shipments was| nearly as graat, man; W. R. Garster, Charles Hardy, Waino Hendrickson, Guy McNaugh- ton, Roy Hoffman, Russell Clithero, William Franks, John McCormick and Sherwood Wirt. Decorations—E. M. Polley, Chair- man; Bert Lybeck, H. O. Adams and John W. Jones. Parade—The Rev. O. L. Kendall, Chairman; C. B. Holland and Frank Metcalf. | to take any more than those already LONDON, June 11.—Sharp earth |signed up aboard that vessel. Reports of other departments of | shocks were felt in this section| No word has been received from yho government reveal similar pro- . this forenoon and also in other the 25 Scouts since they left here gress in other branches of Terri- areas several miles distance. No |last Monday, due to the road being|yoria) gevelopment—its mining, its damage was done here but the ex- | closed, and whether they know it airways, game, fisheries, tourist tra- citement was intense. _ |or not they appear to be destined| e Two children wgre seriously in-|for a.great many treats tomorrow. mhe Empire's Progress Edition | jured at Hazabrook, Northern| Fond mothers were baking cakes| .ontaing thirty pages of informa- France, and several slightly injured | today, stocking up on candy bars| tion apout the Perritory that we! 40 NIPPON WAR CRAFT TO TRY HANKOW ATTACK |Chinese to Make Stand at | Kiukiam Where Junks [ Block River \FOREIGN VESSELS ORDERED TO LEAVE Chiang Kai-Shek Calls All Able Bodied Men to Defense SHANGHAI, June 11.—The Jap- anese Navy today served notice of its intention to blast its way up the Yangtze River to Hankow, China’s provisiopal capital. Foreign shipping has been warn- jed to evacuate the river between Wuhu and Kiukiang, a distance of 200 miles. Forty Japanese naval craft are reported to be concentrated at |Wuhu, 326 miles from Hankow, The fleet is led by the flagship Tzuma. Only ships now in the restricted area are British, French and Unit- ed States gunboats. Stiff Opposition The stiffest opposition to the at- tack is expected at Kiukiang, where the Chinese have formed a boom of sunken junks, loaded with rock, across the river. General Chiang Kai-Shek met the new threat with an order that |men be conscripted from all prov- inces on the basis of population. The order specifies that sons of the ‘wealthy = be . conscripted . the same as coolies. | At Chengchow, the Chinese, again (resorting to guerilla tactics, broke |up into a number of small forces and began harrying the Japanese |attacking forces from all flanks, slowing the Nippon advance per- ceptibly. Tenor of Alarm | With heavy forelgn interests, es- pecially American and British, along |the Yangtze River, the Japanese naval threat has created a tenor of alarm and extreme tension in diplomatic centers. No 'orders have yet been an- nounced that would signify any in- tention of foreign gunboats to leave the Yangtze, those vessels having been originally ordered to the Yangtze area for the protec- tion of foreigners and foreign prop- erty. — INSURGENTS ON ADVANGE, MOVE UPON VALENGIA |by falling timber. There was minor |and what-have-you in preparation none you will find of interest. Albocacer Repor!ed Cap- | the flying business the same as aska. He charged that the Filipinos had on various occasions failed to| heed Alaska game and fish la ESCAPE; JAILE D Lisgssotf - PREVENTS BREAK H : { Twenty-one-Year-Old Bank Men in Spain War ™ “Riber 1e Shotin el o | Abdomen ROME, June 11.—The Italian gov- et i et ernment has reported a total of, SPOKANE, Wash., June 11.—The 9,541 casualties among the IhlhnTcuumge of a county jailer who was expeditionary force aiding ln.mr-]benten on the head with blackjacks gent General Franco in the Spanish|and threatened with a revolver, pre- civil war since the conflict started.|vented the escape yesterday of Of the total, 2,023 were killed and | three convicted murderers from the the others wounded, captured or re- | county jail. ported missing. | LeRoy Knapp, 21, bank robber and — e e | slayer, was shot and possibly fatal- ...______—_T | ly wounded before reaching freedom. b | A. B. Coldeen, county jailer, was lw}mmtuny, but not critically injured | by the pounding he received. NEW YORK, June 11. — Closing, Knapp, who today would have quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| been called before the judge to hear stock at today’s short session is 10%, him fix the date for his hanging American Can 88, American LixhtIfor a bank robbery and slaying in and Power 5%, Anaconda 24’%, Beth- | Spokane a year ago’ last February, lenem Steel 44'%, Commonwealth was shot through the abdomen by and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wmh!{!hnrifl‘s Deputy Bill Dieter. 4%, General Motors 29; Internation-, Dieter fired and hit Knapp as al Harvester 53%, Kennecott 29%, the latter was opening the jail's New York Central 11%, Southern | outer door. Pacific 11%, United States Steel| Stanley Knapp, LeRoy’s brother, 41° Cities Service 8%, Pound and the actual killer of William $4.! | Walker in the bank robbery, and T Herbert Allen, also under the death DOW, JONES AVERAGES . | sentence for the same robbery, par- The following are today’s Dow,| ticipated in the attempted jail break, Jones averages: industrials 114.23, | but surrendered when LeRoy Knapp rails 2053, utilities 19,13, J‘wu shot, | usual.” | property damage. Insurance adjustors said today the| Dispatches received here from fire was caused by a welding torch | Brussels, Belgium, sald a severe which ignited fabric of the . de-|Shock there sent householders run- stroyed Bellanca and quickly turned | the entire shops into a veritable in- | ferno. | 3 HOTELS IN PORTLAND ARE CLOSED, STRIKE Nearly Two Thousand Workers Walkout— | Raise Demanded ‘ PORTLAND, Ore, dJune 11. — ‘Three more hotels are suffering from | a strike, bringing the total of hostel- | ries affected by the walkout to eleven. o Nearly 2,000 workers walked out ‘Wednesday, supported by the Driv- ers’ unions, affiliated with the AFL and deliveries were ordered stopped. Pay raises is the demand, and not| a reduction as proposed. - e — PASSENGERS ON ALASKA James L. Gray, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gray, is a passenger on the Alaska for Juneau. He has been attending the Oregon State College for the last nine months, ning into the street. No serious property damage was done, how- ever. GEORGE WHITE IN MOTORCYCLE CRASH In a motorcycle accident near the Auk Bay Grocery on the Eagle River Highway last evening at approxi- mately 7 o'clock, George White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert White, was severely injured when the vehicle that he was driving hit a piece of corduroy, where the road has been worn. He was thrown headlong over the bars and knocked unconscious. George was picked up by E. E. Bmith, a resident of the highway, who started to bring him to town, but a flat tire stopped their pro- gress and the patient was brought | in to St. Ann’s Hospital by Simp- son MacKinnon. for a visit to camp e 'TO GRADUATE FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY Word has been received that Mrs. Leonard Pockman, the former Aline Ann Goldstein, well-known in Juneau, will graduate from the University of Boston on June 14. During the summer vacation, the Pockman’s will motor to New Mex- ico. Mr. Pockman is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of ‘Technology. ! - ON BOARD ALASKA | Walter P. Scott, Jr, who has been attending the University of | Washington as a sophomore, is on |the Alaska bound for Juneau where he will visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Scott, for the |summer vacation. | et TO ARRIVE ON ALASKA Johnny Winthers and Johnny Satre, who have been attending| SON BORN TODAY [ ' TO D. BAKERS To Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Baker congratulations are being extended today upon the arrival of a son at 12:20 a.m. in St. Ann's Hospital The child weighed 8 pounds and | 4 ounces. Mr. Baker is on the staff | Juneau. FOLTA, JR., RETURNING George Folta, Jr, who has been attending the University of Wash-| ington, is a passenger on the Al- aska which is due in Juneau Tues-) day morning. He will spend the) summer visiting with his parr\m..s,! Mr. and Mrs. George Folta. e A | BASEBALL TODAY | k3 | | *- The following are scores of base- Reception—Gov. John W. Troy, | Honorary Chairman; Mayor Harry 1. Lucas, Chairman; Charles W. Car- ter, President of the Chamber of Commerce; James J. Connors, Col- lector of Customs; Judge George F. Alexander; E. W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska; C. D. Beale, President, and Kelly Blake, President-elect of the Rotary Club; L. H. Metzgar, Superintendent of the Alaska Ju- neau Gold Mining Company; Bert lows; Cash Cole, President of the Pioneers; C. H. MacSpadden, Exalt- ed Ruler of the Elks; James Carl- | son, Dictator of the Moose; Charles W. Hawkesworth, Blue Lodge Ma- son; Attorney General James 8. Truitt, Scottish Rite; J. F. Mullen, John Reck and Lew Willlams, Post Commander. Dance, July 2—-J. T. Petrich, Chairman, . Dance, July 4—A. E. Johnstone, Chairman; G. H. Leonard. Finance—M. S. Sides, Chairman. | Advertising and Publicity—George H. Walmsley, Chairman; Sherwood Wirt and Lew Williams. of the Standard Oil Company ;,,-]L.vm-ck. Noble Grand of the Odd Fel- | tured—Govt. Airmen Beat Off Attacks HENDAYE, June 11.—The - van- guard of the Insurgent drive on ‘Vulenctl is reported within eight miles of Castellon de la Plana, Capi- tal City of Castellon Province, the major objective of the latest Franco offensive. The Insurgents appeared to be victorious at Villa Fames, important transportation center, and are re- ported ready to enter Lucena del Cio, commanding the Lucena-Cas~ | tellon highway. | Other advices received here state that the Insurgent Army of Gen. Miranda has captured Albocacer, | for two months the Spanish Govern- | ment's bulwark protecting Castellon de la Plana and Valencia. GOVERNMENT AIRMEN BEAT OFF AIR RAIDERS MADRID, June 11.—Government airmen on patrol over the heavily | bombed eastern seaboard, are re- |cabin on Lena Beach, driving a White was on his way to the White |school in Everett, Wash., are due ball games played this afternoon |to arrive on the Alaska which is in the major leagues and received | Harley-Davidson motorcycle, bear- scheduled for arrival Tuesday. The up to 2 o'clock: | ing a California license, that he|two Johnnys will spend the sum- had borrowed from Harold Abram-| mer visiting with their parents| son, member of the Juneau motor- here. | cycle club, when the accident oc-| L T S | called sty | A special meeting of the Viking rain. Dr. William P. Blanton, phymhn101ub will be held this evening H: Philadelphia 3; Pittsburgh 4. in the case, reports that the victim|7:30 o'clock at the home of H.| Boston 0; Cincinnati 3. received a very definite concussion,|W. Anderson, president of the or- e and other head injuries, but that his|ganization. American League Nmonfim New York 2; St. Louis 2. Game in eighth on account of | Treasurer; condition is much oved, and he| Plans for a club picnic are to| St. Louis 4; Philadelphia 5. is resting easily, ool lbe discussed, | Detroit 7; Washington 2. Serving on the General Program POrted to have beaten off six air Committee with Chairman Pegues raids attempted on Alicante during are George Gullufsen, Secretary-| the past 24 hours. The invading J. T. Petrich, M. H_‘rnlder.s have already spread death Sides, Ralph B. Martin, E. M. Pol- and destruction on surrounding vil- ley and W. O. Johnson. | lages. —_————— | —————a— AMUNDSEN FLIES MISS FREEBURGER RETURNS Miss Doris Freeburger, daughter John Amundsen, Alaska Air of Dr. and Mrs. George F. Free- Transport pilot, took the AAT Stin- |burger, is a passenger aboard the son out this morning to Chichagof. Alaska for Juneau. She has been Making the trip out were Tom attending Reed College in Port- Murphy ad Peter Yabucanan. llnnd,