The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7829. e ——————— Y JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1938. =3 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS STRATOLINERS WILL FLY TO JUNEAU JAPAN FORCES !Ci'qvil War I{cteranf Areto Get . Free Trip to Gettysburg on Anniversary, with Attendant LANDED TODAY IN $0. CHINA Swatow Reported Bombed by War Planes—Drive on Canton Imminent June 24. — Japa- nese troops have landed on the South China mainland under a heavy protective barrage while Japanese planes extensively bombed Swatow, the South China Treaty port. Landings were made from Namoa Island, 20 miles east of Swatow The Chinese, retreating ini counter-attacked and held ground against the invaders Chihlin. The landing of Japanese Marines on Namao Island last Tuesday caused fears that Japan's long ex- pected drive on Canton, 200 miles southwest of Swatow, was immin- ent. HONGKONG, land, their near Putla?t:fiueen. Miss Juneau on Den a_ii Tonight Young Girl Brings Invita- tion to Potlatch in Seattle July 30 Bringing a personal invitation to Gov. John W. Troy to represent Al- aska at the Potlatch of Progress in Seattle July 30 at the dedication'of Alaskan Way, Miss Mary Winje, queen of the Seattle Sourdough Club and Ambassador of good will of the Washingtonians, will arrive in Ju-| neau this evening aboard the steam- er Denali and wil be officially wel- comed by Mayor Harry I. Lucas and President Charles W. Carter of the Chamber of Commerce. Also aboard the Denali tonight will be Genevieve Juneau, great granddaughter of Joe Juneau, who, with Dick Harris, found the first gold here and for whom the town was later named. Miss Juneau makes her home in Aurora, Ill, and she WASHINGTON, June 24.—There is almost a bounty these days on hale | and hearty Civil War veterans. It all comes of the offer of the government to pay all expenses of | a veteran and his attendant on a| trip to Gettysburg for the 75th an- niversary observance of the battle that marked a turn in the tide of the Civil War. Congress appropri- | ated $900,000 for the affair, most of it for expense of veterans. ! War Department attaches pri- vately have visions of nephews and cousins agitating Uncle Willie |to desert his front porch rocking |chair to take a train for Gettys- OUTLOOK BRIGHT FOR N.E.A, GROUP HERE NEXT YEAR ! |Delegate Dimond Reports Alaska Invitation Well | Received by Edtiors Invitation to the National Edi- torial Association to hold its 1939 convention in Juneau was well re- ceived and the outlook for it com- ing here is excellent, according to a message from Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to Gov. John W. Troy today. Delegate Dimond extended the invitation on behalf of Alaska |at the convention which was held | this year at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. The matter is now up to | the Board of Directors. | The convention, if it comes north, will bring approximately 350 edi- tors, publishers and their families he was feeling fine, except for a|Vision has ever recorded as to Alaska next summer. The Delegate has returned to Washington .from White Sulphur Springs and is leaving the national Capital for a visit to Alaska. He will be here in time to deliver the In- | dependence Day address on the | Fourth of July. HEIR MISSING is the first of the Juneau family since the original founder, to visit IN MUUNTAINS here . - e — N I N E PERISH ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 24 —Gov. Clyde Tingley is personally | leading a searching party in the rugged Sandia mountains, east of here, in the hunt for Medill McCor- Mad Waters Tearing Across Three Counties in North Central Part of State HAVRE, Mont., June 24—Home- less farmers in the flooded valley of the Milk River in North Central Montana today braced themselves against the onrush of the raging waters. The flood has already taken nine lives and left one missing and has damaged thousands of dollars worth of property. The flood waters are rushing across three counties toward Malta, east of Havre. Eight victims were pulled from the Graveley Coulee, near Laredo yesterday, when a wall of water 20 feet high drove across fertile fields, leaving gulches 40 feet deep. 3 PWA GRANTS FOR NORTHLAND WASHINGTON, June 24. — The PWA has announced the following Alaska grants: Fairbanks school $221,000, Kotze- bue school $17,100, Skagway muni- cipal improvements $8,018. . ot Holden Takes Fairchild High Alex Holden was flying over Sitka yesterday, but could see Menden- lmick‘ Jr., 21, heir to the McCormick | Publishing fortune. He has been missing three days on a mountain climbing trip. The Governor is accompanied by | 36 state policemen, National Guard | officers and deputy sheriffs. — e, EIGHT KILLED - INEXPLOSION OF TIME BOMB Horrible Death Meted Out to Seven Workers, Bank- ‘ ‘ er in Oil Fields . HOBBS, N.M., June 24.—Public and private investigators have| opened an investigation into the | mysterious premature explosion of an oil well time bomb which dealt horrible death to eight persons, one a prominent New Mexico financier. The blast injured four others. The explosion snuffed out the lives of George A. Kaseman, 69, Al- buquerque banker, and seven oil workers whom he was watching as they prepared to shoot a well in the rich Monument Field, 25 miles southwest of here. Potsdam Revives - Musical Tradition BERLIN, June 24 —Potsdam’s mu- sical tradition, dating back to the days of PFrederick the Great, will be perpetuated this summer by a fes- burg. It is easy to understand that nephews and close friends of eli- gible veterans are as eager or more eager to make the trip than are the men who fought the great fight so many years ago. The average age of Civil War veterans is 94 but the average age of people who would like a free trip to Gettysburg is much less. CREDENTIALS, PLEASE Many prospective attendants have written to the War Department ask- | ing how to go about fitting out Uncle | (Continued on Page Seven) G[wemur Has Close Call in Autl Accident Chief Executive, Driver and3 Maid All Escape Serious Injury Gov. John W. Troy and two em- ployees of the Governor's House, Charles Bergstrom and Aileen Kari- men, escaped serious injury about 5:30 yesterday afternoon when the Governor’s automobile went off the| temporary one-way bridge on the| Glacier Highway at Salmon Creek | and wedged in a horizontal position between the wooden structure and the adjoining catwalk, Although | bruised and suffering slightly from | shock none of the three was seri- ously hurt. | The Governor reported today that little stiffness, resulting from the | jolt when the car up-ended, and a few scattered bruise Bergstrom and | Miss Karimen also were nursing bruises. | Bergstrom, who was driving when | the accident occurred, said that| though he was drivingt slowly, he| failed to straighten the car prop- erly into the narrow one-way wood- en bridge and the left front wheel jumped over the six-inch low guard plank. Weight of the machine tipped it over and it settled by the nose into the creek, the center of the body and the back wheels wedging | in between the bridge and the cat- walk, thus preventing what could have been a much more serious ac- cident. Bergstrom, caretaker at the Gov-i ernor’s House, and Miss Karimen, maid, had called for the Governor at his office and were taking him for a short ride before dinner when the accident happened. The car, practically a new one, was quite bad- ly damaged. *. | sTock QuoTATIONS | T O e e AP T * NEW YORK, June 24. — Closing qu\ition of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 95, American Light and Power 57, Anaconda 54%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5, General Motors 35%, International Harvester 61%, Kennecott 36, New | York Central 14%, Southern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 52'%, Cities Service 9%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 129.06, rails 25.06, utilities 28.18. Fascist Powers Promise Safety of @tzerland Italy and Germany Assure Little Nation of Its Neutrality ROME, Italy, June 24. — Italy and Germany, Fascist partners and Eu- rope’s major non-League POWErs, today announced they had assured Switzerland they would respect her neutrality. | | question of publishing a series of SUBGESTS MORE FUNDS FOR SPY PROBING IN U. S, President Belic;'es Army, Navy Should Have Money for Purpose WASHINGTON, June 24.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said today that he thought the Army and Navy should have more funds for running down spies in this country. The comment was made in re- sponse to. press conference ques- tions after the President said the newspaper articles in the New York | spy investigations involved both| patriots and ethics. | ‘The articles have been prepared‘ PRICES AGAIN UPWARD TODAY, STOCK MARKET Sharpest Five Days Up- swing in Five Years Takes Place on N.Y. Exchange NEW YORK, June 24. — This week’s buying wave on the New York Stock exchange rolled onward today, giving share prices the sharp- | est five-day upswing in five years. The early hours of the session saw the fastest trading since last October but the wave subsided somewhat as the day wore on. Today’s turnover fell a little short of yesterday, transactions of 2,400,- | 000 shares being reported. ‘The morning gains of $1 to $3 a by Leon Turrou, former FBI agent. ghare were cut in half during the The series is not being published | gfternoon. pending outcome of a suit brought| geattered buying reappeared dur- by the Government to prevent pub‘i ing the final hours. Homestake and lication because they might hinder| meIntyre gold mining shares stepped further investigation which is in|yup ene point or so at the finish. progress. | D e TELEVISION Swastika Emblem - Garried fo France GETS SHOTS; i FATAL FALL By Negro Soldiers Experimental Pictures of misht not be interested in this, bu‘i W R d H the Nazi swastika emblem was car-| oman Recor: er | ried into battle by the only Ameri-| Death Plunge 1can Negro artillery brigade, the 167th, to serve in the World War. ‘ The swastika was chosen as an| | ancient symbol of good fortune, |says the brigade's wartime com- NEW YORK, June 24.—By tragic accident, Miss Marian Per- loff, stenographer, recovering from a mervous breakdown, appeared in the strangest experiment that tele- she plunged from the sixth floor of the Rockefeller Center skyscraper to the street. and was killed. lan attorney here. | “Those were magnificent men,” he recalls, “well-disciplined, cheerful, excellent troops. They came from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and The fatal fall was pictured in Indiana, and in the ranks were all speeding clear images on the tele- | the specialists I needed, such as vision studio screen before which | Wireless operators and draftsmen, sat a stunned group of technicians, ~They could sight a gun b.‘:"“’r Miss Perloff was being vied in| than white men” he added. “Our test shots of the television equip-|Prigade had only 200 horses and ment when she accidentally fel Mules instead of 2000, so those from a window, men sometimes pulled the guns B anywhere up to three miles into position.” The brigade went into action October 15, 1918, along the Moi-| selle River at Pont au Mousson ARE APPROVED FOR TERRITORY Ketchikan, Klawock, Fair- banks, Skagway, Schools Are to Get Assistance Approval for five public works| projects in Alaska under the new public works program has been given by PWA, according to word received here today by the Juneau PWA office. The approvals are: Ketchikan, for water and tele- phone improvements, a grant of $7,307 for water system and $4,411 for telephone. Klawock, for water system, a grant of $14,727 and a loan of $18,000. Fairbanks, municipal improve- ments, a grant of $221,400. Skagway, sidewalks, a grant of $8,018. | Board of Education, for Territor- | ial schools at Hope, Aleknagik and Takotna, a grant of $17,100. The grants represent 45 percent of the cost of the projects. Where | loans are made the government, agrees to accept the municipality’s | bonds for the balance. New England Has High Cancer Rate BOSTON, June 24—Dr. George 8. Foster of Manchester, N.H., said that cancer deaths in New England | were 50 percent higher than in nny{ other part of the world. The sur-| geon told a medical meeting at the Kenmore Memorial Hospital his studies showed that not only did New England have the highest death rate but that New Hanip-|{0rts handed over by the British, Dewey was seized with a cramp and shire and Vermont had the highest | proportion of cancer deaths in the area. He could give no reason for Both nations also congratulated Switzerland on obtaining freedom from any obligations to take part this. e Zachary . Taylor, 12th president in any future League actions. hall Glacier. Holden brought the|tival of music under the patronage The League Council acknowledged Marine Airways Fairchild back from of General Field Marshal Hermann of the United States, died 16 months Sitka at an altitude of 18,000 feet.) Goering. \ Swiss absolute neutrality on May 14.[after taking office. north of Nancy. It was under lu‘u}' until the Armistice. GERMANY’S LOSS INHERBS, WASHINGTON STATE'S GAIN ABERDEEN, Wash., June 24. Thousands of foxgloves growing on| logged-off hillsides of Grays Harbor county—plus failure of a| German - cultivated crop — have brought new income to western Washington residents. Nearly 100 persons have spent part of their time this spring gath- ering foxglove leaves, which, dried and treated, yeld digitalis folia, essential in the treatment of heart disease. An estimated income of $6,000 came to the harbor last year from the leaves, formerly regarded as a pest. The leaves have been harvested commercially in Ger- many for a number of years, but the 1937 crop there was almost a complete failure. the IRISHMEN ARE T0 MAN COAST DEFENSES NOW of Ireland’s coastal defenses soon will be manned by Irishmen decided coastal forts in replacing English regiments. Sir Walter Kirke, head of Brit-| ain’s reserve, says it “obviously is more satisfactory that the men‘ should come from the immediate| vicinity of the points to be de-| fended.” | Fortification of several strategic| points in Eire in addition fo the and Scottish | and a 25,000 increase of the Eire army are main features of the de- fense program of the southern sec- tion of the island. ——.-—e The mining industry furnishes nearly 90 percent, of the exports of | Chile. 5 | Del WASHINGTON, June 24 -—Alaska | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond says | he wants Budget Bureau Director | Daniel Bell to “stop running his blue pencil through Alaska projects. T | intend to speak to President Roose- | velt about it. We have got to do| something about the Budget Direc- tor’'s bad habit of putting Alaskan projects on the dusty shelf.” | In addition to speaking to Presi- dent Roosevelt about Bell, Dele-| gate Dimond said he plans to ask | Presidential approval of Public| Works spending in Alaska for roads and airports. “I will take Dr. Ernest Gruening,| British Buy 200 Lockheeds From U. S. Firm SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 24 —Agents of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation today confirmed previ- ous reports that the company has booked an order for 200 war planes for the British Air Ministry. B CORRINE DUNGAN TAKES LEAD IN QUEEN CONTEST Goddess ofIi_b;rty Race to End With Show at Capitol Tuesday 1 | mandez, “Jehn “H. Sherburne, now; Corrine Dutican hgs gond’ into| [the lead in the Juneau Chamber| 1t will be the twelfth broadcast he of Commerce Goddess of Liberty| contest, it was announced by the contest committee today. She is now 440 votes ahead of her closest rival. The standings today were: Corrine Duncan 1640 Edith Lindegard .. 1200 Dorothy Berthall 1030 Luella Tucker 100 The final voting and the close of the contest will be Tuesday night at the Capitol Theatre with the showing of Joe E. Brown in “Fit for| |a King,” which show the Chamber | of Commerce is sponsoring along‘ with the Goddess of Liberty con-| | torial Association meeting there to »gate Dimond Is to b(et?k!LAHGEERAFT Presidential Aid in Getting PWA Project Funds for Alaska WILL BE USED - NEW SERVICE T0 NORTHLAND Important A nnouncement Is Made in Seattle by Joe Chief of the Territorial Division, to the White House with me. We are going to ask the President for all of the money left in the Federal Treasury, after the initial allot- ments for WPA projects are made, in hope of obtaining part of it. There is no reason I can see, why Alaska should not be included in the new spending program. We need the money for roads and air fiel con-| Crosson—Olher Plans cluded the Alaska Delegate. ‘ Are Made Public The Delegate said he plans to| make a quick trip to White Sulphur SEATTLE, June 24.—Joe Cros- Springs and invite the National Edi-| o FE D Aie B 0te OO ways, Inc., with his headquar- ters in Alaska, said today that some of the four-motored stra- toliners built by the Boeing Company will be used on the Seattle-Alaska passenger air mail service. Crosson said it may be a year before sufficiently large land- ing fields may be developed in Alaska but the service from Se- attle to Juneau will probably open this fall with smaller craft used. Crosson said the stratoliners will be used as they will be able to fly high and overcome lower weather conditions which are experienced by the present planes. The stratoliners will be used for the service from Seattle to Ketchikan, Juneau and Fair- | banks and smaller craft will be | used in the shuttle service be- | tween three other points in the Territory. TRYING WELLS IN WAR UPON FEERTEEDDUST STORMS Announcement was made today GOODWELL, Okla, June 24. — that the President’s Fireside Chat,| Deep wells may some day help de- through a hookup, will be heard liver the Southwestern high plains over Station KINY from 5:50 to 6| farmer from dust. o'clock this afternoon. | Here at Panhandle A. and M. AR | college, where experimenters toil . . | with deep well irrigation, crops Raspberries Getting | flourish without aid of rainfall. Gas Treatments to | Deep well irrigation is not new. But what President Ed Morrison FIRESIDE CHAT THIS EVENING BY PRESIDENT Roosevelt Will Tell Nation Whether Special Ses- sion Is Necessary make the Alaska trip next year. | WASHINGTON, June 24 —Presi- | dent Roosevelt, in his fireside chat this evening, is giving the country a report on whether a special ses- sion of Congress is likely. The President was asked at the press conference today by several| newsmen whether a special session of Congress was probable and he replied that they will get their answer tonight in his address. The President will make the na-| tion-wide broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Coast” Time otr“the H'BOI has made since his inauguration as President. Keep Them Firmer and his staff at Panhandle college seek to learn by experiment is: test. ST. PAUL. Minn,, June 24. — The| Can deep wells be used profit- There will be a speclal matinee g that turns ordinary water into|ably in subsistence farming on Tuesday at 2 p.m. for the children|qa water is going to improve Min- | dusty wastes that in the last few and those who have purchased nogota's raspberries this summer,|years of drought have ylelded lit- tickets from the contestants and|suys j D, Winter, University Farm|tle but ruined crops. who cannot attend the evening per-| yorticulturist. Experiments in mix-| “Sufficient information,” Morri- formances. ling carbon dioxide with air in cool- | son said, “has not yet been gathered | ing berries before shipment proved |relative to the possibility of extend- All Year Club of Southern Cali- | fornia estimates that Eastern tour- ists pour a stream of trade at the| (rate of $24,000 an hour into South- BELFAST, Ireland, June 24.—All ern California. 'have been 212,106 motoring tour- British military authorities have |ists in the state, the club reported, | northern an increase of 15.1 per cent over | Ireland must be manned in future'the corresponding period of last by the six county reserve forces, year. Official Puts His Foot Into Blaze LINCOLN, Neb,, June 24. — Vic- tor Pawloski, chairman of the Far- well village board, put his foot into it, and, oh my, how it hurt! He tried to stomp out a fire in a waste receptacle at the state treas- urer’s office. His foot stuck in the container, and the flames shot up his trouser leg. Office aides carried | water in their hands from a basin and extinguished the flames before | Pawloski was burned severely. | | Tourists Pay Big L OS ANGELES, June 24. — The | In the first quarter of 1938, there Sees Brother Die Swimming in Lake CHICAGO, June 24. — Theodore drowned recently in Sauk Lake in the Forest preserves south of Chi- cago Heights. His brother, Ralph, | who was swimming with the youth, |saw him sink but was unable to | save him. The body was recovered 50 successful last year that the ing deep well irrigation on any state’s largest raspberry growing as- | large-type scale. However, we are sociation is going to use the equip- of the opinion that a reasonable ment this year. amount of irrigation can be done “The gas very definitely retards| with the amount of water that can development of mould and main-|be made available.” tains a firmer berry,” Winter said.“ Hugh Thompson, Panhandle col- It eliminates the “sweating” which lege horticulturist, reported irri- covers berries with drops of water 8ated ground on the college farm when they are removed from or-|produced more than eight times as | dinary cooling units. Sweating has| much garden vegetables as non- | been held a major cause of mould | irrigated ground. He added the formation. The carbon monoxide | quality was superior. treatment is said to prevent the| Irrigated sudan grass produced berries from becoming cooler than four and a half tons to the acre 55 degrees, thus preventing sweat- and the farm ylelded peas at the | The extent of underground water | supplies and the cost of wells are 0y For U. $. Killing (] ’f I i e 18 Chained from the bridge between this town| gapT LARKE CITY, June 24— and International Falls, Minn., but|a timid, thirty-two-year-old house- ing. irate of 90 bushels to the acre, he | questions the college will try to United | it was determined she was fifteen wife whose husband was ned FORT FRANCES, Ont,, June 24.— Because she was fifteen feet over the border and in the States, Annie Yaciuk, a Manitoba woman, was acquitted of murder, | said. Freed in Canada | answer next. To Job She told a jury she threw her baby feet over the border. Minnesota of chajn authorities will take up the case. |,y tolq omh‘.::s ‘:od: .hea.vy — eee - > s “He's not really bad or mean. He | just works too iof na 5 ea e n | The woman, Sfella Taylor Sand- | strom, added that she would not ]7 Years R H |sign a complaint, nor testify if her S, hevIves husband was brought to trial. VINCENNES, Ind., June 24. Sheriff’s Deputies E. J. House- holder and J. L. Householder said, Workmen tearing down concrete fence posts on the farm of Paul however, that the thirty-seven- year-old husband, Lynn Sandstrom, Fry, former state excise director, saw a dark object in one post that a miner at Bingham, twenty-five had been poured in 1921. miles southwest of Salt Lake City, would be charged with false im- prisonment. They extracted a flattened toad The deputies reported Sandstrom from the concrete. Fry said it re-|chained his wife “so she would vived and hopped away after being wash dishes and get breakfast for me and the kids.” by Homewood County highway po- lice. doused with water,