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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” re—— ——— VOL. LIL, NO. 7825. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TRAIN PLUNGES INTO FLOODED CREEK * » * * * * - * * * » * * * L * » - - * * * * * - » * cores of Passengers Are Carried to Death F orty-eight Long R(mg(.z Bombers to Make Flight, San Diego to Sitka Base Rear Admiral Chatles A. Blakely, Aircraft Commander, and Practically Entire S Bernhard, Are Leaving taff, Including Captain Alva Southern Base Salurday—A Four Squadrons to Remain North Until August 15 BATTLE FLEET VESSELS COME NORTH SHORTLY Seasonal Movement Start Today with Sailings fl'o”] San Fedro SAN PEDRO. Cal, June 20.—The seasonal movement of vessels of the United States Fleet to the Puget sound and Alaska areas has begun | with the sailing of five battleships and nine heavy cruisers from here. Activities will be in the Al- aska area where Destroyer Division No. 2 and heavy cruisers Chester, Louisville and Salt Lake City will cruise to Ketchikan, Yakutat Bay, SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 20.— Under command of Rear Admiral Charles A. Blakely, Aircraft Com- mander of the Scouting Force, 48 twin motored long range patrol bombers will leave here next Satur- day on a nonstop flight to Seattle, It will be the greatest number of offshore bombers to ever attempt a flight in mass formation The bombers will comprise Squa- drons 7, 9, 11 and 12 of Patrol Wing No. 1. After a brief stay in Seattle, thc squadrons will operate out of Puget | Sound to the fleet air base at Sitka Alaska, remaining in the northern waters until August 15 when they will return, in mass flight Virtually the entire staff of Ad- miral Blakely, including Capt. Alva Bernhard, Chief of Staff. will make the flight. D - NAVAL PLANES TO PARTICIPATE Funeral for Kidnap Victim RIOTS STAGED BY SITDOWNERS AT VANCOUVER Traffic Blocked for Hours —Scores of Store Windows Broken NOTICE TO JOBLESS IS ISSUED BY MAYOR Eiiile: Den Demonstrations Will Not Be Tolerated, Executive Says | VANCOUVER, B. C., June 20.— |Mayor G. C. Miller |warning that he will permit more sitdown strikes as Vancouver took stock today of two unemployed y which sent two of-| riots yesterd; | sticks | Late yesterday the jobless made another assault, the second one of has issued a | no | |ficers and 35 jobless to hospitals. | Mayor Miller awaited the arrival | [tcday of Premier Pattullo, from | | Victoria, to consider the situaiion. | Scores of downtown store, fronts were boarded up today because of the orgy yesterday of window smashing Unemployed were evicted from the Central Post Office after the police used tear gas and night| Justice’s Daughter a Bride FAST OLYMPIAN IS WRECKED IN RAIL DISASTER Locomotive and Seven Cars Dive Into Montana Stream HIGH WATER WASHES BRIDGE OUT AT NIGHT Death List Is Estimated as High as Forty—Bodies Being Recovered { MILES CITY, Mont., June 20.— Custer Creek, 26 miles east of here, nto which the Milwaukee Railroad’s Olympian carried nearly 40 per= sons to their deaths in the Na- tion’s worst train tragedy in years, resisted efforts of rescuers to reach one car still holding some of the victims. Heavy silt is flowing through the submerged tourist sleeper in which 17 bodies are reported. Railroad officials, because of the heavy silt, were forced to abandon attempts to raise the sleeper by cranes fear- ing that the bottom of the water- logged car might diop out, sending the bodies down stream. Eleven Identified Sixteen bodies, eleven of them | 1 Sy Elizabeth R. Roberts, daughter of Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of and Seward sector from July 1 to the day, on the Post Office, tossing stones and breaking six windows. This was followed by the de-| The father and mother of little James Bailey Cash, Jr., are shown they attended funeral services for their slain son in Homestead, F! the United States Supreme Court, is pictured with her bridegroom, Charles Alfred Hamilton, of Green Farms, Conn, They were married on the Roberts estate near Himberton, Pa, Justice Black and Chief Justice Hughes attended the ceremony. identified, have been recovered from other wreckage. Another body, that of an unidentified woman, has been July 17. The Aleutian Islands will see the IN aircraft tenders Wright, Langley, Sandpiper and Teal which will sup- port the heavy cruisers. Unprecedented flight operations of the Scouting force of flying boats will be on the program of naval activities in the Seattle, Sitka, Ko- diak and Unalaska areas. DESTROYERS T0 ARRIVE HERE AT NOONTOMORROW: Barry and Hopkins Will Berth at Government Dock The naval destroyers Hopkins and | Barry of the Pacific Coast battle | force will be in Juneau at noon | tomorrow, coming from Skagway, and will be in port until the fol-| lowing day, according to word tromg the vessels to Mayor Harry I. Lucas. | They will be moored at the Gov- ernment Dock. | The Barry has been in Juneau | before but it will be the first trip for the Hopkins. The ships came north from San Diego stopping at | Ketchikan, Wrangell, Skagway and other points and will go directly south from here, according to pres- | ent advice. | U. S. Leads World Navies in Planes LONDON, June 20.—The United States navy has almost three times as many airplanes as either the navies of Japan or Great Britain, Alfred Duff Cooper, first lord of the admiralty, told the House of Com- mons. Cooper gave these figures: United States, 705, including 198 flying boats attached to the fleet; Japan, 271; Great Britain, 214; Ger- many, 16. ., Mrs. Cash (center) was accompanied by a nurse to the funeral rites parture of an unemployed delega- Lieut. Comdr. Allen Will Dispatch Three Ships to Join in Celebration Three naval planes from Patrol Squadron 19, Sitka naval base, will be in Juneau for the Fourth of July celebration according to word brought to Juneau today from Lieut. Comdr. D. C. Allen, in com- mand of the squadron, by Lieut. C. E Ekstrom, who flew over this morning. According to tentative plans, the naval ships will fly over the parade and city in a maneuver as a fea- ture of the celebration. The ships will be over either on the night of July 3 or early the morning of the Fourth 17 New Airway Weather Stations For Erritnry Two Additional Observers to Be Added to Juneau Weather Bureau U. S. Meteorologist Howard J. Thompson, accompanied by Mrs. Thompson, returned to Juneau on the Yukon after a business trip to Seattle. Mr. Thompson announced that 17 new airway weather sta- tions were being installed in the Territory now as a result of the conferences with the Alaska Aero- nautics Commission here last year. The stations will be at Copper Cen- ter, McCarthy, Chitina, Paxon, Platium, Iliamna, Ohogamute, Ani- ak, Circle Hot Springs, Seward, Pi- lot Point, Homer, Kogguing, Uga- shik and Haines. Two additional weather men will be added to the Jifeau office, the Meteorologist said, but assignments have not yet been made. They are expected to be about July 1. . 4 BASEBALL TODAY * *—r of her only son, victim of a kidnap-killer. Claim Holders In Moratorium Must File Notice WASHINGTON, June 20— The mining moratorium, passed by the recent Congress, requires that every claimant for relief, must file a notice of desire to hold the claim in the office where the locgtion was record- ed. This notice must also show the claimant exempt from in- come tax payment of the 1937 tax year. R FISH SALES The following were fish landings at Juneau over the weekend. Halibut: Marie, 9,500 pounds, and Tern, 7,500 pounds, selling for 6.70 and 5 and 6.80 and 490 cents, re- spectively. Salmon: Diana, 2500 pounds, Avis, 600 pounds, Celtic, 6,000, and Rauma, 4,000, all selling for 10-7-4 cents. 10 LEAVE BY PLANE FOR FAIRBANKS ‘With 10 passengers aboard, a PAA plane left here today for Fairbanks and another was expected in from the Interior this afternoon. The passengers out were Mr. and Mrs. Fullerich and E. I Fullerich, Jr., E. Fransen, Mrs. E. Nicholich, Fran- ke i cis Meals, D. S. Hostetter, J. Goldman, Mrs. J. J. Ewyer and Bar- bara White. HENRY KEYES PASSES AWAY NORTH HAVER HILL, N.H., June Tea Party Tax Wa: Now British Are Paying 16 tion of 100 who planned to inter- view government officials. The demonstrators finally dis- |persed on advice of their leaders lafter traffic was held up for blocks for hours. During the riots, windows were broken in scores of downtown stores, including the Spencer and | Woodward establishments. | June 17. — Time| Sitdowners have been occupying | flies, and it now develops that enemy the Civic Art Gallery and the Post | airplanes can shake more taxes out Office since May 20 in an effort ‘uf tea-drinkers than the old-time|to b before the government ! fear of British redcoats. authorities demands of the jobless \ England recently raised its tax for a relief work program. on tea from 12 cents a pound to 16 P | cents and while the English don't | cheer it especially, they are pay- |ing it without threats of staging 6 cents; By PRE TON GROVER WASHINGTON. Tomorrow Longest Day of Year, But tea-parties such as added histori- 4 A cal zest to our pre-Revolutionary More Rain Promised days. The money, of course, is going S Despite the rain, still the longest day of the year, the Weather Bureau reporting that | there will be 18.3 hours of possible sunshine, but not probable. The sun rises at 2:53 in the morning, some- where behind the clouds, and sets at 9:10 p.m., the summer change to build up defenses for the British Isles, which right now are con- | cerned over the prospect of having fleets of bombers come over froni 'Lh(‘ Continent. Just for the sake of comparison, it could be mentioned that the tax which precipitated the Boston Tea ’ arty was about six cents a pound, AapItiEes g plece at 504 D shels 4 But the chances for actual sun- barely less than & third of the tax| shine are slim, the Bureau forecast- the British now are levying upon ing rain to add to the 818 inches themaclyea; | which had fallen so far this month & ” g up to noon today, compared with IT DEPENDS ON THE VIEW Jthe normal June fall of 3.1 inches. The fear of British redcoats was | June, 1904, holds the record thus not enough to convince the Yankee | far for rainfall with a total of 11.50 Colonists they should pay the Lax,:fur the month, but there are good although to be sure the circumstanc- | prospects of June, 1938, smashing es then were far different from|the high mark, as no fair weather those affecting the present British | tea tax. | The complaint of the Colonists | was that the money was intended to | help England finance the very red- coats which were kept over here w} keep the Yankees in “subjection.” | When the shoe was on the other foot | the Colonists paid tea taxes. The| United States popped a tariff on| | tea in 1789 ranging from six cents| to 45 cents and this was doubled | | when the government needed money to fight the British in 1812, | Tea hasn't been taxed or tariffed | in this country since 1903 when a 10 percent Spanish war levy was repealed. But somebody has gotta | pay for these battleships. jA TOUCHING INCIDENT Not to change the subject too is seen in the immediate offing. et Canton Bombin Arouses Ire of z.flfllfiritishars LONDON, June 20—Two thou- sand persons marched on the Jap- anese Embassy here Sunday pro- testing against the bombing of Canton, the metropolis of South China. The demonstrators urged a British boycott on all Japanese- taken from the Yellowstone River into whichy Custer Creek flows, about 50 miles from the scene of the tragedy. Porters told of seeing as many as five bodies carried away. A 20-foot flood rolled down Cus- ter Creek channel. The flood watcrs carried out a 180-foot bridge just before the fast Olympian arrived for the crossing shortly before midnight Saturday. Pitches Into Creek The racing locomotive pitched into the creek with seven of the twelve cars behind it. The locomo- tive and the cars piled up in a jackstraw heap in the surging flood PRICES TAKE ESPIONAGE PLOT BIG ADVANGE IS REVEALED BY Y. EXCHANGE 33 INDICTMENTS Issues of All Departments Many Germans Are Named Share in First Broad | by Grand Jury in Ses- | | Gain in Months | sion in New York - | NEW YORK, June 20.—The stock NEW YORK, June 20.—Thirty-|Waters. market shot upward today, leaders three indictments, naming 18 per-| Passengers on the train numbered gaining from $1 to $5 in the first|sons, have been returned by the | about 155 and the crew comprised broad upturn in more than one|grand jury investigating the Gov-|ten men. month. | ernment’s first intensive espionage| Passengers and crewmen from the Buyers took 200,000 shares in the | brobe since the World War. |cars left standing on the tracks, first hour, the largest in that| The indictments are based on four|Which was running with foot deep period since May 27. This set the|Weeks of closed hearings during|Water, hastily responded to give pace and carried transfers for to-|Which time scores of men and wo-) What aid they could. day's transactions to well beyond |men have been questioned. | The water began to recede short- the 1,000,000 mark. Some of those named in the in-|ly before dawn Sunday and it is All departments of issues shared |dictments are German officlals re- | Indicated now that the bodies may in the advance. | siding in Germany. }be dug from the swamped sleeper. P s | Lamar Hardy, Federal District| Witnesses from one half-over- - _a | Attorney, said the directing heads | turned car said they could see bodies | operated through agents living here, | 0f passengers, some still in their | STOCK QUOTATIONS | {also through crew members of ships| Seats. Sleeper lights were still burn.. * | plying between Germany and the|ing at dawn Sunday. NEW YORK, June 20‘70105,,,g2U|:1u-d States. Flood Waters Recede quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| Those named in the indictments| The flood waters are slowly re- stock today is 10%, American Can ' include Lieutenant Commander Udo| ceding this afternoon. 90%, American Light and Power|Von Bonin, and Lieutenant Com-| The flood came suddenly, one 5%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel | mander Herman Menzel, both be-| track walker reporting that 20 48, Commonwealth and Southern | lleved to be residents of Berlin, con- | minutes before the train was due 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General |nected with the Defense Office of |at the bridge, Custer Creek was dry. Motors 31, International Harvester|'he Reich; War Minister Ernest| Immediately word was received of 54%, Kennecott 32%, New York Meuller, believed to be a resident|the disaster, doctors, nurses and Central 12'%, Southern Pacific 11%, | °f Hamburg. |railroad crewmen and wreckers United States Steel 45%, OCities| Other indicted are Capt. Erich were dispatched to the scene from Service 8%, | Pfifuer, believed to be a resident of many different points along the rail Bremen, and Mrs. Jessie Jordan,|System. Bodies were recovered, and ‘ DOW, JONES AVERAGES | recently sentenced in England ror}thuse injured or in need were given | a four-year term, and Gustave Rum- | attention. | rich, United States Army Sergeant| | who deserted at Post Missoula, Mon- | | tana, in 1935. | The following are todays Dow, Jones averages: industrials 11861, rails 20.70, utilities 19.36. Is Near Death In Avalanche KALIMPONG, India, June H. W. Tilman, leader of members of a British expedition RESCUE WORKERS GET BODIES FROM SLEEPER Makes World |Record for Tailspins | MILES CITY, June 20. — The bodies of seven persons were re- |covered during this afternoon from the wreckage of the sleeper which |yesterday and earlier today defied ety |efforts of the rescuers on account of the water and silt. Purther ef- forts are being made for recovery of other bodies. The recovery of |the seven bodies brings the total |to 27 that have been found on the RICHMOND, Indiana, June | 20—A. R. McDaniels, 24, co- manager of an airport here, put an airplane through 55 tail- spins at an altitude of 11,000 feet for what he said is a 20. three | The following are scores of base- Disastrous Fire A H.l H i t I u; awa" ball games played this afternoon in the big leagues and received up to HILO, Hawaii, June 20—Esti- 1:30 o'clock: mates of the dgmage_ from fire NltimTfi_l&uue which destroyed six business estab- Chicago 5; Brooklyn 1. lishments last Saturday placed the Cincinnati 3; Boston 1. Joss at $140,000. The fire was one "SI0 of the most disastrous in the his- Amerivan League tory of the city. New York 8; St. Louis 4. 20—Henry Keyes, former war-time apruptly, we have a North Country made goods. Governor of this state and United| hynch that Secretary Ickes might States Senator for three terms, died| pe 4 grand guy for a husband. here today at his home. He was 78i years of age. |Grants Are Made to At several recent press confer-| w"_Tom co“eges | ences the Secretary has been gor- | eousl | ‘WEAVERVILLE, Cal—Mrs. Dave| ghip for Ireland to marry %_ywr_iiwcke!eller Foundation has granted | wilburn's yeast is 50 years old, but| o4 Jane Dahlman of Milwaukee, |$85000 in War emergency grants to she still bakes satisfactory bread | Christian Colleges in China, dam- with it, she says, L laged in the undeclared war. (Continued on Page Two) lw\moul missing a day. which failed recently in an attempt to climb Mount Everest, is reported Lo have narrowly escaped death in an avalanche. | world record for consecutive spins. e ‘LAST' WOMAN MINER WIGAN, Eng—Believed last of | the race of hardy Lancashire wo- EDGAR, Neb.—Wanda Mallory,| men who worked below ground in 16, recent graduate of Edgar High)the mines in the Victorian era, Mrs. School, completed 12 years of school | Elizabeth Melling died recently at Jo1 B AT TS DIDN'T MISS DAY AT SCHOOL |banks of the river or taken from | wreckage. | There are believed to be several | more bodies pinned under wreck- age. Survivors and rescue workers agreed that many more lives might have been lost had not cool-headed passengers and crew members skill- [ (Continued on Page Seven)