The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 25, 1938, Page 1

| | i HE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7830. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1938. ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS B o i S ———— e 3 PRICE TEN CENTS NO SPECIAL SESSION, SA Y3 FD.R. Loyalists Threaten to Bomb DELEGATE OFF |Wreckage of Chicago - Pacific Passenger Train 1 PLANE CONTROL 'MEASURE GETS FORAPPROVAL 48 Navy Patrol ~ Planes in Mass Flig@_tu North REPRISALS ARE NOW INDIGATED BY SPAN. GOVT. Intention of Air Raiding| to Alaska After Stop Duce’s Territory An- | in Seattle nounced mn London SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 25.— | Forty-eight giant patrol bombers BRITISH, FRENCH BECOME ALARME took off from San Diego non-stop |today on a mass flight for Seattle | Admiral Charles A. Blakely, Com- & |mander of the scouting force, was Claims Made Both German, |in the last plane and there were [talian Planes Have At- |?°ut 300 men aboard. The planes 2 by i |were scheduel to land on Lake tacked Coast Cities |Washington this afternoon. r LSRN The fact that several auxiliary BULLETIN—PARIS, June 25. surface craft already are in the —Italy notified France that | Seattle area was taken to mean the F. Air Force will wipe |the planes would continue opera- tions in the north, largely in Al- aska waters. Admiral Blakely's flagship, the U. S. S. Wright, is due in Kodiak July 10 and the U. S. S. Langley, tender for the patrol planes, is due in Sitka July 8. Other vessels in the Seattle area _ |are the repair ship Medica and the It is reported that the Spanish|iender Arcter which will join the Government has threatened to bomb ywyjont at Kodiak. Italian cities unless Insurgent air RS Y TR raids on Loyalist centers cease. | A report from London says the Spanish Ambassador is undersbood\ to have presented a note to Foreign)| Minister Viscount Halifax telling of | Spanish Government cities off the map if the Spanish Govern- ment bembs Italian cities. It is said the first bomb dropped by Loyalists will be the signal for war. (By Associated Press) tablishes New Air Auth- ority of Five Members WASHINGTON, June 25. — The President has given his approval of the bill designed to give the na- tion’s far-flung aviation industry a new deal, the civil aeronautic's measure, establishing a new agency to regulate flying. Hailed as one of the most forward- looking steps taken by Congress this session, the measure establishes a five-man civil aeronautics author- ity, and administrator to act as an| executive officer of the agency and a three-man air safety board The present bureau of air com- merce is abolished and the juris- diction over aviation exercised by that bureau, the interstate com- merce commission and the postoffice department will be transferred to the new unit. Mason Mentioned The President is expected to name the members of the authority with- in two or three weeks. Grant Mason New York, former Havana mana- |ger of Pan American Airways, is reported slated to head the group. Others mentioned for places on the authority include Second As- 'FOR NORTHLAND THIS EVENING ombers Expect to Come Measure, Now Signed, Es-|{Dimond Flies West to Seat- tle — Leaving There Wednesday for Juneau GRUENING, BELL ARE ALSO COMING NORTH Postmaster Farley to Be in Ketchikan July 18 for Dedication WASHINGTON, June 25—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said ‘11(' will leave here tonight by plane for Seattle to catch the steamer Baranof out of Seattle next Wed- | nesday for Alaska. He is scheduled | to make the Fourth of July address at Juneau and is due to #rrive there on Saturday, July 2. Delegate Dimond said he will re- turn to Ketchikan to meet Post- master General James A. Farley on July 18 where the latter is sched- uled to dedicate the Post Office there. Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening, Di- rector, Divisions of Territories and to leave here today for a three months’ inspection trip -over Al- aska. Dr. Gruening said he will ac- the Spanish Government's inten- tions to blast the Duce’s homeland French reports said Premier Mus- solini has warned Spain to be cau- tious in the use of aviation, particu- larly on the Mediterranean Coast. The Loyalist threat to bomb Italy precipitated further bombings of Barcelona. The Italians have an air base at Nallorca—east of the Spanish east coast, from whence bombers and fighters are stationed. Threat Serious The French government feels that the threat is one of the most seri- ous to Europe’s peace since Hitler's Austrian coup. The nearest Italian City is Genoa, 400 miles from Barcelona, but fast bombing planes would be able to shell Ttaly two hours after leaving Spain. . Great Britain and France are re- ported to have warned the Spanish Government that the far-flung aerial reprisals on Ttalian towns “would add materially to difficultics of the Spanish Republic and be dan- gerous to the entire European situa- tion. Barcelona authorities insist that both German and Italian planes have participated in repeated raids on the Spanish Coastal cities. It is further said that the Loyal- ists have threatened to direct their aerial bombings on Balastic towns unless Gen, Franco quits bombing Spanish civilian center: .- Peak Climbin Washburn Party Back_in Valde Explorer Successfully Gains Top of Lofty Mount St. Agnes VALDEZ, Alaska, June 25.—After climbing the hitherto invulnerable heights of lofty Mt. St. Agnes in the ENDORSINGS QUESTIONED Investigation to Be Launch- ed Into Public Back- ing of Candidates WASHINGTON, June 25.—Chair- | man Shepard of the Senate Cam- | paign Expenditures Committee said today an investigation would be con- ducted into the circumstances sur- rounding any pubolic statements| made by Government officials en- dorsing any candidates for public office. The Senator made it plain that the committee would consider three endorsements in the light of pos- sible “undue influence” such in- dorsements might have on employees working u: 7 the official in ques-‘ tion. ‘ Several Senators, discussing poli- | ties in relief, were surprised today to find that the Senate, in approv- ing of the pump priming bill, sur-| rendered its power to reject state| WPA administrators. The Senatorsgsaid they were un- aware that when they voted on the bill, a clause providing for such power had been omitted, although | the clause had appeared in previous ‘reher bills, requiring Senate approv- al of WPA officials receiving $5,000 | a year, HAIDA WILL BRING SOLDIERS HERE FOR FOURTH OF JULY M. S. Whittier, Assistant Col- lector of Customs, sailed from Un- alaska yesterday aboard the Coast |Guard cutter Haida, bound for Ju- neau, according to word received by the Customs office here. The Haida is scheduled to call at Chil- koot Barracks on her way south, bringing the soldiers here for the Fourth of July celebration, it is| understood. i | | {Medill McCormick Still Not heart of the Chugach Mountains, mountaineer - explorer Bradford Aeronca HOWII Washburn and three in his party To Admiralty are back in Valdez. lsland Lake The four men of the Harvard ex- pedition, who during the past month | g have been exploring the unmapped “Bud” Bodding and “Sonny” heart of the great Chugach Range, Lund, pilots of the Gastineau Fly-| were flown safely to Valdez in two ing Club Aeronca, have taken ad- trips from their 6,000 feet high base vantage of the good weather and camp. flown the Aeronca to Lake Has- Pilot Bob Reeves did the flying, Selborg for the first time the littie landing on skiis in the mountain ship has been taken across country. snow field and on the mud flats at Valdez. Stopping at the lake only long enough to catch a few trout to sistant Postmaster General Harllee| company Commissioner of Fisheries Branch, Assistant Secretary of Com- | Frank T. Bell from Seattle July 2 merce J. Monroe Johnson, Denis|to Ketchikan aboard the Fisheries Mulligan, director of the bureau of | flagship Brant. air commerce; Assistant Treasury | Secretary Stephen Gibbons and |make a survey of the fisheries in the Clinton M. Hester, treasury legal|Bristol Bay section and also visit expert. salmon canning localities during his Alaska coast trip. Dr. Gruening will Cordova, the Aleutian Islands, Matanuska, Fairbanks, and the Mt. McKinley National Park. i e SEARCH STARTS FOR NOME MAN Eli Smith, Delegate, Town- send Plan Convention, Is Now Hunted LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 25. The Townsend Plan headquarter: | has received a telegram which has started a search for Eli Smith, 76, | of Nome, Alaska, one of the two Al- |aska delegates to the National | Townsend Plan Convention here. | The telegram came from Edwin | Eli Smith, of The Dalles, Ore., which | said a newspaper photograph of Eli | Smith led him to believe the man | is his father whom he last saw 40 years ago. “Inform him my mother’s name | | was Molly, my sister’s name Lola. | | If correct ask him to write to me,”| The Dalles man wifed. Ellis Writes in Legion Monthly On “Jap Invasion” To O.K. Mergers The new agency has power to authorize mergers of air transport companies, pass upon proposed new routes and regulate trans-oceanic | flying, both by American planes and those of other nations which desire landing rights in this coun- try. The measure setting up the new agency was drafted by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, and Chairman Lea of the House in- terstate commerce committee after extensive investigation by a special| Senate committee into cperation of | the Bureau of Air Commerce and a number of air transport disasters The committee sharply criticized administration of the bureau and the system under which jurisdiction over various phases of the aviation industry was scattered through sev- eral agencie: | | | -ee Search Continues For Heir Lost on Rugged Mountain Found—Companion Found Dead ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 25— | A call for volunteers was issued tog | day to speed the search for 21-year- old Medill McCormick, Jr., heir to the McCormick publishing fortune, [in the Territory, who has been missing for four days| the July issue of the American Le-| in the rugged Sandia Mouritain area, gion Magazine, national publication | east of here. The volunteer call was issued on|enlightening article under the the possibility that McCormick may | “Alaska’s Now or Never” and gives be clinging to a ledge of an almost | an account of his trip over the Bris- | sheer cliff, near where Whitmer's|tol Bay area la® summer by air- body was found. | plane, at which time he saw Japa- A plane is enroute from Colorado nese fishing operations. Springs with a group of veteran e mountain climbers to aid in the GOES SOUTH search, and Governor Clyde Tingley| Photographer Joseph Yolo, who is personally leading a party of s been taking wildlife pictures searchers. i} this district for the Biological Mrs. Ruth Handa Simms, the missing youth’s mother, | sailed on the Baranof this morn-| remained at the search party head- | ing for the south, going to Yakima Washburn said the ascent of St. prove -they had landed, they re-' Agnes was completed on June 19. ported the lake a ‘“cinch.” The peak had never been climbed It has been a rule of by man before and is the highest peak on the Chugach group. the club |not leave the harbor area. | quarters through the night. —————— The 150-mile Kennebec river in heretofore that the Aeronca should Maine is frozen three months a|to continue his mission in the Ter- year, in connection with the photography | business there. He expects to re- turn north in two or three weeks ritory. Island Possessions, is also arranging | ‘GusMesserschmidt, OLYMPIAN 1S Potl The Fisheries Commissioner will| visit Juneau, Founder of San Francisco | some time and had been in St. Ann’s Hospital for the past year. He was a resident of Juneau for 48 vears. | Igloo No. 6. | Minnie Grauck, in Oakland, Cal; Clyde R. Ellis of Anchorage, for- Juneau; Henry Messerschmidt, Ju- mer Department Commander of the Neau; William Biggs, Kimshan Cove: American Legion and widely known |# nephew, John Hermle, Juneau; has an article in,and seven grandchildren, all of Ju- | neau. |of the Legion, dealing with Japa- | Carter Mortuary. No funeral title | o McCormick Sthvey and the Forest Service, €0 innings. Italian Towns FIRESIDE CHAT URGES SUPPORT OF LIBERALS President Declares Defeat- ism Spirit Called Down on Self, Congress JERSEY CITY TROUBLE HINTED AT IN TALK |Chief Executive Says He | Will Take No Part in Primary Elections WASHINGTON, June 25.—In his | twelfth Fireside Chat to the Ameri- | can people in a national broadcast, | President Roosevelt last night de- | clared that there would be no spe- | cial session of Congress, “barring | unforeseen events,” in summarizing | some of the work of the 75th Con- | gress. | The President said that never in | the history of our time has there Wreckage of the Olympian, crack passenger train of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which crashed through a flood-weakened bridge into Custer Creek, 25 miles east of Miles City, Mont., is The crash, one of the most disastrous in recent railroad history, occurred while the train was enroute from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. shown in this exclusive picture. DERAILED IN HEADON CRASH Milwaukee Train Collides with CCC Special Near Ingomar, Montana Pioneer of Juneau, Passes Aflay Today Bakery Dies After Long Illness SEATTLE, June 25.-— According to advices received here, the Mil- Agustave Henry Messerschmidt, wellknown 66-year-old pioneer passed away this morning at 4 o'-| waukee Olympian collided head-on clock in the St. Ann’s Hospital as|with an eastbound CCC train from a result of an epileptic stroke, He|Fort Wright, Wash,, to Camp Dix, had been in very poor health for|N.J, and killed one enrollee and injured another. The head-on collision occurred near Ingomar, Mont. “Gus” Messerschmidt, as he was| The Olympian's coaches were de- familiarly known, was born in|railed and seven passengers, en- Wurnberg, Germany, in 1872 and|gineer and fireman were injured lived there until he was sixteen|slightly. The Olympian was travel- | ing slow at the time. This is the second accident of an | Olympian in one week, the other | being a week ago tonight when the | crack train went through a flood- weakened bridge into Custer Creek, | Mont. Anchfira@g §irt-ka To Get PWA Cash WASHINGTON, June 25. — The Public Works Administration an- seven children, Mrs. K. K. Kyler,| nounced today the allocation of Juneau; Mrs. L. C. Niederhelman,|$46582 for street improvements at Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. George F.[Anchorage. Shaw, Juneau; Mrs. Jack Schmitz, | i years of age, when he came to Am- erica with his parents who settlad in Philadelphia. In 1891 he came to the west coast and remained in California until the gold rush of '98 when he came to Alaska. He arrived in Juneau in November, 1898, and was employed in Douglas as a baker. In the spring of '99, he founded what is now the oldest bakery in Alasl the San Francisco Bakery, which is still op- erating at 124 Second Street. He was a life member of the Elks and member of the Pioneers of Alaska, He is survived by a sister, Mrs.| The PWA office in Juneau today |received word that a grant of $13,- 1500 had been approved by PWA |for a sewer system in Sitka. The |total cost is estimated at $30,000, w.|the balance of the money being ar-|raised by bond issue. The remains are at the Charles McCormick’s companion, Richard | nese fishing in Bristol Bay. | rangements have as yet been madz. e % Whitmer, 20, was found last nignt| Mr. Ellis, well informed on fish ———.e | | at the base of a cliff, dead from an | ing conditions in the north, has * — +; 1 STOCK QUOTATIONS | 1 b 2 A | evidently high fall. |written a highly interesting and | BASEBALL TODAY | |+————— % *| NEW YORK, June 25—Closing The following are scores of games | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine played this afternoon in the major Stock at today’s short session 's| |10%, American Can 95, American | Light and Power 6, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem Steel 58%, Common- wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss St. Louis 3; Brooklyn 1 Wright 4%, General Motors 36, In- Chicago 3; New York 0. |ternational Harvester 84%, Kenne- Cincinnati 6; Philadelphia 7, elev-|cott 37%, New York Central 13%, Southern Pacific 15, United States |steel 54%, Cities Service 9%, Pound L“BG‘,“ leagues as received up to 2 o'clock National League Pittsburgh 8; Boston 7. American League New York 9; Detroit 3. —— .- | Dandruff is believed responsi- | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, | ble for 90 percent of cases of bald- | Jones averages: industrials 131.94, ‘lnms. rails 24.45, utilities 2058, | been such a spirit of defeatism called down on the heads of the | President and Congress” as during | the 75th session, but that the Demo- cratic principle of liberal thought | had prevailed to meet the condi- | tions as they exist in the nation to- | day. He complimented the Ameri- | can people on their “sticking quali- ties” in carrying forward in support atch Queen Receives Royal Welcome Her Miss Mary Winje Brings In- vitation to Attend Dedi- cation in Seattle ‘A lovely queen of the Sourdoughs, | Miss Mary Winje, winsome pos- ssor of red hair and a pair of snappy blue eyes, received a royal welcome last evening upon her ar- rival in the Capital City on the steamer Denali. Meeting the queen at the boat were Mayor H. 1. Lucas, E. M. Pol- ley, and Charles W. Carter, Presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce and representative of Gov. John W. Troy. Miss Winje was escorted to the glacier, where the party joined Miss Genevieve Juneau, great grand niece of Joe Juneau, A group picture was then taken showing Mr. Carter accepting the invitation to attend the Potlatch of Progress and dedication of Alaskan Way, in Seattle, on behalf of the Governor, from the ambassador of good will, Miss Wenje. From the glacier the royal visitor was shown points of interest in and about the city. Miss Winje, a native of Norway, has been an employee in the County-City Building in Seattle (for the past eight years. She is |“thrilled” about her Alaskan visit and enthusiastic about the scenery in this part of the country. The contest, in which 25 candi- dates were entered to compete for the title of Queen of the Sour- dughs, started in October and end- ed December 18, with Miss Winge, |who had received 10,330 votes, chosen to reign over the Potlateh. The Washingtonians and the Sour- doughs of Seattle sponsored the contest and Miss Winge stated that the event this year was much | of the policies which are aimed to “give a decent living to all Ameri- cans” as in contrast with domina- | tion by a “favored few” of great wealth which, he declared, are try- ing to sidetrack the present policies |and go back to the “philanthropies” | of the 1920s. He struck out agaia at monopolies and concentration of wealth and called upon the people | to support the liberal policies which would eliminate the practices. Speaks As Party Head Declaring his right as head of the Democratic party to reiterate the principles of that party's plat- form, the President said he was | taking no part in the primary elec- tions, but that he was prepared per- sonally to fight for the principles of his platform and for those who were aligned in similar thgught. He made it plain that he was speaking as head of the party and not as | President in urging support of the Democratic policies of the present administration. The Chief Executive sald that fol- lowing his landslide election in 1936 he has been urged to “coast along™ and “not take the Democratic plat- form too seriously.” Those who sug- gested such a course, he declared, were the ones who are now failing to cooperate in bringing about na- tional recovery. Freedom of Speech Without mentioning by name Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, President RooS\elt left no question as to his meaning when he declared the “right of free speech, a free press and freedom of religious worship cannot be denied” in this country. There are those, he said, who would deny that right under the cloak of attempting to halt discussion by those of opposite political thought. Representative Jerry O'Connell of Montana, Norman Thomas, Socialist, and several others were recently de- nied the ijght to speak in Jersey City, it has been charged. The President declared he was not referring to the “wild man” whose views were not American when he spoke of liberal thought, but of those who stand for the prin- ciple of sound, progressive demo- | cratic government. bigger than they had anticipaetd.| Mistakes have been made, the Twenty-seven nations will be rep- Chief Executive said, in referring resented at the pageant July 29, 30,| to Congress, but he said his faith {and 31, which Miss Winge will|was undiminished in the leadership reign over. of both Houses. The Sourdough Queen plans to spend three days in Skagway, be-CHARLOTrE DocKs. ’ 222 ARE ABOARD !fore boarding the steamer Alaska, | The Princess Charlotte on a for her return voyage to the south. —— | | special Alaska cruise, arrived in Miss Pauline Petrich is enter- juneau this afternoon with 222 taining & small group of friends roundtrip passengers aboard and today at a swimming party at the no passengers for Juneau. Cleveland cabin on the Fritz Cove| The Charlotte will be sailing for {road in honor of her birthday. The skagway at 10 o'clock tonight, and |girls are spending the afternoon will go south via Sitka, not calling Jon the beach. rm.& SWIMMING PARTY