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

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_—— VOL. LII, NO. 7820. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FLOOD WATERS STALLING WAR IN CHINA DIMOND WILL BE IN JUNEAU JULY FOURTH | Delegate Accepts Legion Invitation to Be Independ- ence Day Speaker Here Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond will be in Juneau for the Fourth of July and will deliver the Independence Day address. In reply to an invitation from Alford John Bradford Post, the Delegate wired today his accept- ance to the Post Commander and said he expected to sail from Seat- tle for Juneau on the steamer Baranof June 29. Delegate Dimond also has re- quested the Navy Department for authorization for a warship in Juneau over the holiday weekend to join in the celebration and has taken the matter up with Admiral C. C. Bloch, Commander-in-Chief on the Pacific Coast. - Legmn Is After Carnegie Medal FurM Mnmsun‘ Juneau Post Will Attempt to Get Award for Hero Who Saved Sweum Taking the first organization recognition of the deed of Malcolm Morrison, who saved the life of Ed Sweum last week, Alford John Bradford Post, American Legion, at its weekly meeting last night in the Dugout voted to attempt to get Morrison a Carnegie medal for heroism, as proposed by The Em- pire last Saturday. Following un- animous decision of the members to follow up what was declared Lo be a “worthy and meritorious case, John E. Pegues and Adjutant George Gullufsen were named a committee to contact the Carnegie Commission and prepared the nec- essa information. Morrison, dressed in heavy fish- ing clothing and wearing hip boots, swam 75 yards in the icy waters off Taku Glacier, pulling Sweum along with him by the hair after their boat ha,d overturned. SAILORS QUIT FEDERATION; BLANKET VOTE Lundberg S;S_SUP Is for Trade Unionists, Not Politicians SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 14. —The independent Sailors’ Union of the Pacific has withdrawn from the Maritime Federation to seek an alliance with the Teamsters, Marine Firemen, and AFL Long- shoremen. The sailors acted as the Feder- ation convention considered a pro- posal of waterfront unions to nego- tiate for renewal of contracts this fall with employers, jointly, instead of individually. Harry Lundberg, Secretary of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, said votes had been taken in Seattle, Portland, Aberdeen, San Pedro, and San Francisco last night, all auth- orizing the withdrawal from the Federation. The withdrawal was predicted last week when delegates of the SUP bolted the convention in pro- test of a refusal by the Federation to seat representatives of Tacoma longshoremen, belonging to the AFL. Said Lundberg: “Our organiza- tion is for trade unionists — not politicians.” g ALASKA TODAY After spending the past nine months attending school in Everett, Was John Winther, son of Mr. and Mrs, Olaf Winther, returned to Juneau on the steamer Alaska. He plans to work here during the sum- mer, to participate in the national Shrine convention. convention. 4P Fach member of the Oloha Temple of the Shrine of Henelulu was greeted with a kiss as members stepped thrcugh a huge lei to pass by a guard of honor when they arrived on the The Honeiulu group was the in Los Angeles arrive for the Matse first to FISHERIES BILL iacie color Gt DEATH LEAP Millions to Be Spent in Al- aska — Game Law | Measure Passes | WASHINGTON, June 14. — The House has passed and sent to the | White House, legislation author ng the Bureau of Fisheries to go ahead | with a construction program over | a five-year period at a cost of around five million. It calls for building several new patrol boats and the establishment of labora- tories in Alaska to_protect and further the fishing iffdustry. The Senate has sent to the White | House a bill protecting birds and animals introduced in Alaska in recent years by the Biological Sur- vey as well as generally broaden- | ing the scope of the game laws. Women Dactors Making Demands Want Equal Rights with Medical Men During Time of War SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 14.— The American Medical Womens As- | sociation has considered a resolu- tion demanding that women ph cians be given equal rights for medi- cal men during the time of war. Dr. Kate Karpeles, in the reso- Ruth Schiedinger, of Monroe, Mich., pictured above, was named Colnr Girl for the June Week ceremonies at the United States Naval Acad- | emy, Annapolis, Md. Honor »f mak- ing the selection went to Midship- man Elton L. Knapp, also of Mon- roe, captain of the 3d Company. which won the inter-regimental con- test and infantry drill. }FLARE SIGHTED AT SEA; THREE lution, asks that arrangements be made for regular commission for § B | women doctors to serve with the 5. 0. Tanker Rescues Crew | of Disabled Boat Just Before bmkmg BEACH, Cal, June 14 Pettersen, of the Stand- urd on tanker A. F. Lucas, sighted a, flare early this morning and picked | up three men from the | disabled fishing craft, helpless last Friday. T HALIBUTERS | SELL, SEATILE SEATTLE, June 14—The follow- L()N(: since ing halibuters arrived and sold here The fishing craft sank soon after today: the tanker arrived and made the From the western banks—Super- | rescue. jor, 25,000 pounds, 8% and 8 cents. | From the local banks—Hoover, | 18000 pounds, Evolution, 15,000 To Fly Propellor d both selling for 7 and 6 cents; Reliance, 500 pounds, 8 an 7 cents; Westjord, 15,000 pounds,i - | e "in woanas e o 10 Disabled Boat 6% and 6 cents; Viking, 13,000 pounds, 7% and 6 cents. i — - SAN DIEGO, Cal., June 14—FEarl SEEING ALASKA Ortman, noted speed flier, said he There are 37 round trippers| plans to take off today on a flight aboard the Alaska and also 17 in|to Lapaz, Lower California, with |a party making the Golden Belt a 525 pound propeller for the dis- tour via Cordova, abled tuna clipper Pacific Queen, MEN ARE SAVED | | IS TAKEN BY DR. CAMPBELL World's {Greatest Astron omer 5ull.ld(,\ . uln S from Aparlmenl Wmdow SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 14. —Dr. William Wallace OCampbell, 75, regarded as one of the world's greatest. astronomers, committed sui- cide, Coroner Leland said, by lcup- ing from a third-story window of his apartment. His son Wallace Afi(,“bl"d the act to ill-health. A vigil more than a generation long on a mountain top ferreting out the s pared Dr. William Wallace Camp- bell to become president of one of the largest universities west of Chi- (cago. Dr. Campbell developed from a little known teacher of mathe- matics and astronomy to one of | | Rosedale, | world’s eminent astronomers. Given Many Honors Heaped with honors from scien- tific s Campbell was asked to step down rom his lofty place among the | telescopes to chart the course of life for the thousands of students who attend the University of Cali- fornia annually. Except for periods of lecturing at Yale, at the National Academy of the Sciences and elsewhere, and when | directing astronomical expeditions to various parts of the world, Dr. Campbell resided at the observatory continuously from 1890 until his appointment as President of the University of California in 1923 irected Expeditions In pursuit of solar data, Dr. Campbell journeyed to every part of the world. He directed the fol- lowing eclipse expeditions: to Jeur, India, 1898; Thomaston, 1900; Alhama, Spain, 1905; Flint Island, (Continued on Page Six) for an informative, easy-to-read discussion of the new tax bill, turn to page 2, today’s Empire. ts of the stars pre-| societies over the world, Dr.| ~ | been stopped,” said a Soviet Em- Honolulu Shriners Greeted at Los Angeles }I“A“EN“ CAMP IS SUGGESTED INNORTHLAND Mayor Hague Would Send‘ Those Opposing Gov- | " ment to Alaska ‘ NEWARK, New Jersey, June 14. | —Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City, advocates deportation of aliens who object to this country's form of government, Called to the witness stand to- |day in the CIO-American Civil Lib- | erties’ Union “free speech” suit, of which Mayor Haue is defendant, the city exccutive declared that an |alien who “comes here and is dis- | pleased and becomes an objector to the form of government we en- joy, should be driven back to where he came from. CIO counsel asked as to the May- { “support of objectors born in this country,” and the witness re- plied: | “I think we ought to establish a |ecamp in Alaska for them and keep |them away from the American people if they don't believe in our form of government.” o Pleads Guilty, Kidnap Charge, But Not Killing Abductor of Little 5-Year-| Old Cash Boy Is Ar- caigned Today } MIAMI, Fla., June 14.—Franklin| Pierce McCall, when arraigned this forenoon, pleaded guilty to kidnap- ing of 5-year-old James Bailey Cash, | Jr., but innocent on the charge of killing the lad. B WILL DREDGE FOR MISSING | SOVIET PLANE Portion of Arctic Will B Searched for Craft \ | and Six Fliers ’ WASHINGTON, June 14—A por-| tion of the Arctic Ocean will be dredged this summer in an inten-| sive effort to attempt to solve the! | problem of the disappearance of | six Russian fliers last August. The Soviet Embassy explained| that dredging will be around the spot where Eskimos reported they | saw a splash, believed to have been| a plane, in the Arctic wastes. Even though the Soviet Govern- ment does not really believe the| splash was caused by the missing plane, no chances are being taken, Embassy officials said, and added that dredging will be resorted to make a positive determination. It |is said the splash might have been caused by a searching plane. | The dredging efforts will be made | late in July or early in August when the ice melts enough to permit of | the work. | Meanwhile planes will probably be | sent over the area. This is not so much as a resump- tion of the search for the missing fliers as intensification so that it can truly be said the search has never | | bassy official. The official added that nothing is contemplated at present in the way of an International Airline from Russia through Alaska to the Unit- | ed States proper. B T o | BASEBALL TODAY 4 The following are scores of base- | ball games played in the two major leagues this afternoon as received fup to 2 o'clock: National League Chicago 5; Boston 2. St. Louis 4; Philadelphia 3. Pittsburgh .3; New York 5. American League New York 7; Chicago 4. Philadelphia 8; Detroit 2. — e “Euridic,” the first opera, presented at Florence in 1.600. was |Plane Locates Pleasure | ted the halibuter Enterprise flying her aid. 4 He Studied Hard for This | \ uation kiss smacked all over the Naval Academy campus at Annapolis, Md., when 435 graduating midshipmen grabbed diplomas \ and best girls, 2 big hug, with accompanying kiss, went to Miss Agnes Fisher of Annapolis. The enthusiastic donor above is Midshipman | William L. Kitch of San Carlos, Ariz. She has his sheepskin in hand. | Anyway, Muumu.ska I’rovml Cartots Wlll Grow in Alaska By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, June 14.—If the| government should say ' that after October there would be no more relief money for, anybody, it would be somewhat comparable to what has been done for Harry Hopkins' northern outpost, the Matanuska test-tube pioneer project in Alaska. This most dramatic of all relief | projects has come to the jumping- | | off place, and families which dur-| ing the last two years have re- ceived as much as $75 a month NAVY BOMBERS ALASKA BOUND REACH SEATTLE Six Air Vessels Make Fast Flight North from X for clearing their farms will get San Diego Base nothing after thelr fall harvest| is In. 5 # Jack London and other writers SEATTLE, June 14.—8ix twin mo-| p, oo painted Alaska as a land of tored Navy patrol bombers - perpetual snow and snarling male- | dron VP-16 have arrived here 9 mutes, Probably there was not a hours and 28 minutes after leaving San Diego. The arrival of the squadron here gives the Sand Point Naval Air Station 18 new PBY type of bomb- ers, six of which are now at the Sitka Naval Air Base. Squadron VP-16 is scheduled to replace Squadron VP-19, now at the Alaska base but orders are indefin- ite. MISSING CRAFT SIGHTED AT SEA BY COAST GUARD handful of people in all the United States who ever knew that they raise carrots, pigs and peas up there. Matanuska has at least dem- onstrated that Alaskan farming is a possibility. It was two years ago that the re- lief administration took the coun- try by surprise and rounded up about 200 families from stranded farming and lumbering communi- ties in Michigan, Minnesota, Mon- tana and other northern belf states to cart them off to Alaska. Taking them off to Siberia was the accusation at times voiced by critics, but after a few sensational desertions and complaints, news| about the pioneer project petered out until the present order was issued putting them on their own. FOR ‘NATIONAL DEFENSE’ Under the contract with the 200 families taken to Matanuska in 1935, | each was to have 40 acres of land,! farming equipment, houses and a grub stake to last until cash crops could be raised. They earned their grub stake by clearing 15 acres of their own land, for which the gov- ernment paid them $62.50 an acre. An energetic Swede could clear off about’ two acres a month—that is, cut the trees and burn the brush. The government paid contractors to remove the stumps. Of the money he earned, each farmer was allowed a maximum of $75 a month and the rest was kept for him as a nest egg when the government should cut off the money. Some earned additional money building roads. All in all, the government has put $5,000,000 Cruiser—Disabled Ves- sel Is Also Found ASTORIA, Ore., June 14.—A Coast Guard plane has located the miss- ing pleasure cruiser Beverly B 100 miles south of the mouth of the Co- lumbia River. The cruiser is being delivered from Neah Bay to H. L. Beverly Portland oil executive, by a crew of four men. Capt. E. J. MacKibergran missed the Columbia River entrance and proceeded south off his course and then headed north. The craft had been sought since last Friday. The Coast Guard plane also spot- distress signals on the same flight and notified the headquarters which into the project. At the present only resulted in the cutters Onondaga !70 families are on the site and if and Triumph quickly proceeding to —— Ryt b A (Continued on Page Seven) YELLOW RIVER OUT OF BANKS, ~ LARGE SECTION Hundred and Fifty Thou- sand Chinese Farmers, Families Drowned | JAPANESE FORCES ARE FALLING BACK |Invaders Forced to Retreat from Offensive To- ward Chengchow SHANGHAIL, Juné 14.—Jap- anese military authorities said they believe 150,000 Chinese civ- ilians have drowned in the flood waters of the Yellow Riv- er which is spreading over a wide area in the northern part of Honan Province. Flood conditions are worse near Chungmow and increas- ing. Japan's recent offensive is now stalled by the river's overflow. There is no information con- cerning the fate of the Jap- anese forces. Most of the flood victims are Chinese farmers and their fam- ilies. DIKES ARE BREAKING SHANGHAI, June 14. — Flood waters cascading through the | breaches in the dikes of the mighty Yellow River have blocked the |Japanese before Chengchow. Engineers familiar with the ways of the meandering stream fear that one of the greatest catastrophes of |the century will result. Reports from the front said the Japanese have been forced to with- draw as far south as Kaifeng, 43 miles east of Chengchow on the |Lunghai Railway Reports say that the boiling Yel- low River is ten feet deep north of | Chungmow, about 25 miles east of | Chengchow. Numerous villages are inundated by the flood. The water is from two to three feet deep at several points crossing the Lunghai Rallway. Japanese engineers said the pres- ent upsurge is only a preliminary to the heavy flow which is nor- mally not at the maximum height until mid-July. C et DOPE POLICY OF JAPANESE IS ATTACKED Five Nations Make Charges Regarding Growing Narcotic Peril GENEVA, June 14—The United States and five other Nations joined today in successive attacks on Ja- pan’s narcotics policy at a meeting of the League of Nation's Advisory Committee on Narcotics. China, Canada, Great Britain, Egypt and India also made attacks on the narcotic’s policy of the Nip- pons. S. J. Fuller, United States repre- sentative, said: “The situation in parts of China now under control of the Japanese is worse than ever and there is cause for apprehension on the part of the entire world.” Fuller charged that narcotics are being exported to the United States from the Japanese controlled region in North China. S e i E | stock QuoTaTions | p ot nm s LA NEW YORK, June 14—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 87, American Light and Power 5, Anaconda 24, Bethlehem Steel 44'4, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtics Wright 4%, General Motors 287%, International Harvester 50%, Kennecott 287%, New York Central 11%, Southern Pacific 11%, United States Steel 417, Cities Service 8%, Pound $4.96%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 112.78, rails 2040, utilities 18.45.