The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7839. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE —— PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1938. w=c. 2 TERRORIST ATTACKS MADE ON JAPANESE RECREATIONAL HOTEL IN S. E. IS SUGGESTED Dr. Gruening Sees Oppor- tunity for Hostelry to Further Tourist Business WIDE RANGE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES IS STRESSED Need for Aviation Develop- ment Emphasized— Progress Made Promotion of the tourist business and the development of aerial transportation with additional and improved air fields are among the major hopes of the Interior Depart- ment for Alaska and efforts are being directed toward that end, Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, said here today on his arrival aboard the Brant for a gen- eral first-hand survey of Territorial matters. It is the Director’'s first| struction of the new U. S. destroyer trip north since he visited here two years ago. “Down in Hawaii they have made the tourist business what they refer to as their third largest industry, and it seems to me the same thing can be done in Alaska,” Dr. Gruen- ing commented. “I would like to see a hotel located somewhere in South- east Alaska similar to the one in Mt. McKinley National Park; typically recreational hotel, cater- ing to sportsmen and the large number of vacationists who come annually northward; and who will come in greater numbers in the future.” Sees Advantages The Director pointed out that with the countless year-around outdoor activities available in Alaska, rang- ing from winter skiing to summer trout fishing and including moun- tain climbing, hunting and dozens of other things pleasuré-seekers love to do, Southeast Alaska is ideal- ly situated for such an undertaking. He suggested that the Forest Serv- ice, which has supervision of most of the available recreation areas of the Southeast, would be the natural agency to undertake the building of such a hotel. The need for aviation develop- ment continually becomes more pro- nounced, Dr. Gruening said, in bringing out that considerable pro- gress has been made in that direc- tion. Air mail service between Al- aska and the States is now assured and probably will be started by the first of the year, if not sooner, he explained, and additional weather radio stations are being installed ® as aids to aerial navigation. It is| hoped, he said, to get further monzy | to expend on building new airports and enlarging some of the present ones to accommodate the improved (Continued on Page Two) e — CONGRESSMAN 1S IMPRESSED WITH ALASKA Floridan Getting *Eyes Op- ened” in Connection with Vast Northland Congressman Millard Caldwell of Florida is just about as far away from Florida as he can get and stay in the United States, and he likes it, he said today upon his ar- rival aboard the Brant from the States. Not even Florida has any nicer sunshine, the Congressman remarked. and he doesn't believe half the stories he hears about rain in Alaska. AW Mr. Caldwell is a member of the House Appropriations Committee which Delegate Anthony J, Dimond facetiously contends is the “hardest boiled” committee in the world, and which Congressman Caldwell re- plied is exactly why he is in Al- aska—"“to check up on all these things Tony Dimond warts.” So far the Floridan is mightily impressed with the Territory. “It has everything and more than Tony Dimond says, which is a lot,” he commented. “It is a real pleasure to come up and see it first hand. I'm having my eyes opened about Alaska and what its needs are.” The Congressman is accompanied by his sister, Miss Jean Caldwell. Start of a New War Dog Using a riveting hammer Kell, of the Charlestown, | built President Is Assailed for - His Policies | Reply to Roosevelt’s Recent Fireside Chat COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia.. July 7 Former Gov. Alfred Landon, and former Presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, has made a reply to President Roosevelt’s recent | fireside address. He charged that the present depression has been brought on by the Administration’s methods and policies. “Depression is purely political be- cause President Roosevelt has not been successful in restoring employ- ment and he also adopted strategy and nagging of busines,” said Lan- don. Landon characterized the Presi- dent’s speech as the New Deal ver- sion of “why we have twelve million | unemployed,” and said: “President Roosevelt is an adept at using beau- tiful words that appeal to the emo- tions for the purpose of creating a smoke screen to hide his blun- ders,” E Landon assailed the | recklessness but declared that the | Republican voters would ‘back Roo- sevelt if he practiced what | preached. NAVY BOMBERS "HOP FRIDAY O FLIGHT, ALASKA Twenty-four Ships Sched- uled for Nonstop Air ‘ Trp to Sitka | SEATTLE, July T7.—Twenty-four |Navy bombers will hop tomorrow lon a nonstop flight to Sitka for | maneuvers to last two weeks. Other bombers are scheduled to hop off |for Alaska on next Monday. Bachelor Mayors | Bar@(_l in Italy ROME, July 7. — Bachelors, al- | ready heavily taxed in Italy, have not be mayors. A government decree says no bachelor or widower without chil- | dren can hold the post of mayor or tive offices of the provinces and communities. Such men already in those offices must vacate them. 'Poor Farmer—Drou ght Was Bad, But Big Crop’s Awful financial | he| | been dealt a new blow: They can- ‘any other of the high administra-/ to drive the first bolt, Commander Claude O. Mass., navy yard, is pictured beginning con- Walke. Two destroyers are being there. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 7.—In 1936, droughi. The wheat crop went to| pot, falling so low that some had to be imported. It was nature’s ran- | dom blow at crop control, said many | farmers, half believing themselves. | Buckety - buckety all over the| wheat beit arose opposition to fur-| ther crop control and the lid was| off in 1937. A reasonably good | |crop was harvested, and in spite| of a carryover of 200,000,000 bush- | els, prie remained above the “dollar at” level through the fall and early winter of 1937-38. As talk developed of new crop control machinery, farm delega- tions poured into Washington. No wheat quotas for 1938, they urged. Congress and the Department of Agriculture consented, some able farmers and most spe-| cialists in the Department of Ag- riculture smelled trouble, No resrictions were imposed on plantings for the 1938 harvest. As a result, 79,000,000 acres were seeded down to wheat, enough for a “cala- mity crop” of a billion bushels, with good growing weather. In mid-win- ter, prices began to sag. By the time Congr convened last January | some farmers were jittery. By Feb-| ruary, when the farm bill passed,| wheat had scaled off to 80 cents a bushel. It was already too late to control the 1938 winter wheat, plant- | ed the previous fall. All Congress| could do was to promise continued | benefit payments to induce farm-| ers to accept some control of the 1939 crop. } ey | BIG CROP, LOW PRICE | Here is the situation. Normally | | the U. 8. eats 650,000,000 bushels of | wheat, exports another 100,000,000 and carries over in bins and eleva-| | tors an additional one or 200 mil-| | lion. But this year a billion bushel | | crop is in sight which, coupled with | 200,000,000 carried over from 1937, has at times put the market down as low as 70 cents a bushel, al- though it is higher now. | | Under strict terms of the crop| control act, wheat farmers expect-| ing to share any further Federal| benefits would have to agree to| cut their acreage almost in half | next year, from this year’s 79 mil-| lion to 46 million acres. Nether‘, Congress nor the Department wanted that job, especially in the present election year. To remove part of the string, Congress provided just before ad- journment that the acreage should| not be cut below 55 million. Even| with that, the country faces an- other haryest tat may put 10 | bushels of wheat in every pot and a stack of it in every garage. In-| stead of 200,000,000 to carry over to next year the country appears likely to have 470,000,000 bushels ‘w carry over. That is well over half the national nteeds for a year. Some bright spots are: 1—The prospect of 1938 crop re- duction by rust. 2—Slack crops in parts of Eu- | rope. (Note—a billion bushel crop in 1915 brought whopping profits because of the war.) ‘BENEFITS’ TO FARMERS | How is the Department to per- | (Continued on Page Eight) Pl laska indicate a fair | cords. Salmon Outlook Promising Says Fisheries Chief Commissioner Bell Arrives Here Aboard Brant with Official Party The outlook for the fishing sea- son is comparatively bright and | with the anticipated increase in the price of salmon, 1938 should be a good year in the opinion of Com- missioner of Fisheries Frank T. Bell, who arrived here this morn- ing aboard the bureau flagship Brant from Wrangell. In the Brant party with the Commissioner were Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Posses- sions; Congressman Millard Cald- well of Florida and Miss Caldwell, the Congressman's sister; young Peter Gruening, son of the director, and State Senator John B. McColl of California, who is chairman of the California Senate Committee on Fish and Game. Contacts made in Southeast Al- y good run of salmon, the Commissioner said, and although there is a little jurisdic- tional labor trouble at Ketchikan there is indication that it will be settled in time for operations to go ahead as usual. The first runs in Bristol Bay were light, reported, but word from Assistant Alaska Agent Fred Lucas to the Commissioner this morning reported the fish “coming good” in the Naknek, Nushagak and Kvichak rivers the last two or three days. Bristol Bay, Mr. Bell pointed out, is often slow in starting. “The labor situation is not as bad as it was a few weeks ago,” the Commissioner said, “and I believe it will adjust itself. On the whole, with better prices promised the outlook in the salmon industry, I would say, is good. There's been some trouble on the Japanese sit- uation in Bristol Bay as you know, but reports are now that the Jap- anese ships have left the area and that probably will solve that prob- lem for this season.” | The Brant is sailing this evening | b gh - " N i E ‘e although for the Westward, going as far as| . . o tators stampeded, hindering Bristol Bay. All the party will leave here and some of the officials plan to fly in from Cordova to Anchor- age and thence to Bristol Bay, probably meeting the Brant on her arrival there. Senator McColl will stay with the vessel on her round trip, expecting to be back in Seattle by July 25 as will the Commissioner and Con- gressman Caldwell. g0LD, SILVER PRODUCTION S NEAR RECORDS Alaska’s Output Last Year, in Gold, Valued at $22,800,000 o [ WASHINGTON, July 7. — The| United States gold and silver pro-| duction of last year approached re- Gold production totalled 4,804,540 | ounces, which is within 83 ounces| of the 1915 record. The silver production was 71| 941,794 ounces, which is slightly more than 3,000,000 ounces under| 1915. Alaska produced 628,000 ounces of gold, valued at $22,800,000 and 656,- 000 ounces of silver, valued at 5508,-] 000. —_—————— —_— | sTock QuoTaTioNs | — NEW YORK, July 7. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 9%, American Can| 100, American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 35%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 38%, International Harves- ter 65, Kennecott 41%, New York Central 18%, Southern Pacific 17, United States Steel 59%, Cities Ser-| vice 10%, Pound $4.93%, Northern| Pacific 11%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 13745, rails 27.93, utilities 22.15, |Commutation of Death Sen- | mother, also joined in the plea. FEEBLE HOLD ON Y Honan province, Japan's mech BOYS, PLANTED Kefchikan Mayor, BRIT. CRUISER IN FIRE TRAP, City Councilmen IS ORDEREDTO : BURNED. DEATH ~ On Union “List” Firemen’s Brigade, Demon-' strating Efficiency, Falls Down Frghtfully LISBON, Portugal, July 7.—Ten boys were killed, two in the flames, when a firemen’s brigade, during | an exhibition fire drill, failed to| rescue them from a blazing gaso- line soaked four-story building. Two of the boys died in the flames and eight made fatal leaps from windows, Ten other boys were seriously injured before they es- caped the flames. The figgmen. planted the boys, aged from 10 to 20 years, in the various rooms of the building, then set it afire attempting a demon- stration of the efficiency of the brigade. The firemen awaited pre- arranged alarm signals at head- quarters but the flames roared through the structure and trapped the panic-stricken boys as the fire spread quicker than intended. | Many were injured when a crowd the frenzied firemen striving to reach the victims, some of whom were their own sons. NEW MARITIME LABOR BOARD IS NAMEDBY FOR. Authority Granted by Con- gress to Settle Dis- putes in Industry WASHINGTON, July 7. — Presi- | dent Roosevelt has apointed Robert W. Bruere, of New York, as Chair- man of the New Maritime Labor Board. The other two members are Louis Bloch, of San Francisco, and Claude W. Sheehorn of Colorado. The New Maritime Labor Board | is authorized by Congress to settle disputes within the merchant marine on a basis similar to that on which railway labor disputes are now handled. ————— KIDNAPER TO FORFEIT HIS LIFE IN CHAIR tence Refused to Rela- tives of McCall TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 7. — The State Pardon Board today re-| fused to commute the death sen-| tence of Franklin Pierce McCall for the ransom kidnaping of James Bailey Cash Jr., on May 29. | McCall’s attorneys and relatives pleaded for commutation of the death sentence to life imprison-| ment. Mrs. Cash, the victim's| McCall was sentenced to die in| the electric chair but the date has not yet been sét, | ELLOW RIVER had rope dikes. anized army was bogged down; Japan a Officials Not to Be “‘Patron- ized” Because of New Picket Ordinance KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 7 Members of the United Fishermen's Union of the Pacific have place the Mayor and city councilmen on the “do list after the council enacted an ordinance regu- lating picketing, J. F. Zurich, Union Secretary-Treasurer said The ordinance adopted limits pickets to two at each entrance of a plant and requires the pickets to be employees of the plant picketed. Two plants packed their first fish of the season yesterday without being picketed. Zurich d the CIO Cannery Workers and seinets who are en- gaged in a dispute with the packers, had an “understanding with the employers effective for at least a day.” He said negotiations will con- tinue. not patronize” - e CAPT. MUNTER IS NAMED AS C. G. OFFICER Will Have Charge of Divi- sion with Headquart- ers at Seattle WASHINGTON, July 7. — Coast | Guard headquarters announce that Capt. W. H. Munter will be Com- |mander of the Seattle Division of the Coast Guard. Capt. Hunter is now Chairman o fthe Permanent Board which ad- vices Coast Guard commanders on policy and other matters. — e — FORD COMPANY MUST BARGAIN WITH WORKERS Examiner of Labor Rela- tions Board Issues Find- ing, St. Louis Case WASHINGTON, July 7. — The Examiner for the Labor Relations Board today told the members of the Board that it should order the Ford Motor Company to bargain collectively with the United Auto Workers at its St. Louis Assembly plant. The Examiner also proposed an order to enforce reemployment of 192 workers discharged or who had been refused jobs because of par- ticipation in union activities and the strike last November, Under the procedure, the com- pany has ten days to comply. It is the second bodrd order in ten months against the Ford Motor Company. Last December the com- pany was ordered to cease alleged unfair labor practices and rein- state 29 discharged workers. When the river overflowed in ccused China of breaking dikes. HIOT SECTION [Situation in Palestine Is | Blackest Since 1936, ’ | Says Official Report BULLETIN—LONDON. Twe battalions of troops have been rushed to Palestine to as- sist in quelling the deadly Jew- ish-Arab conflict. Three war- ships were late this afternoon ordered here and also reinforce- ments which will make 1,600 soldiers or marines in Pales- tine. JERUSALEM, July 17 Great| Britain has ordered the cruiser Em- erald to Halfa where 131 persons were killed or wounded in two days| of rioting. | The situation is said to be the| | blackest since the Arab general| strike in 1936. | Official sources said 22 Arabs and | 6 Jews have died and 92 Arabs and | 11 Jews have been wounded since the bomb explosion yesterday which | fanned a new turmoil. All Palestine is intense. Twenty-eight funerals were held in Haifa early this morning under heavy police guard. | BATTLE IS FOUGHT | 1 JERUSALEM, July 7. — British| troops late this afternoon fought a/ pitched battle with a band of 600 Arabs who entered Palestine from the British Mandated Trans-Jor-| dan. The battle is reported to have| lasted four hours. Casualties are heavy on the Arab side but none on | the British. Arab tribes are reported massing |on the frontier. | > | ‘Furm;;r_nenuty Sheriff, Harlan Cw_nty. Killed Frank White, on Trial in Kentucky, Shot and Killed Last Night LONDON, Kentucky, July 7.— Frank White, 36, former Harlan | County Deputy Sheriff, on trial | with other former peace officers | and operators of coal companies here, was shot and killed near |Corbin, 14 miles south of here, last | night. Army_am man May, Democrat, of Kentucky, said the establishment of a single department of national defense | would be the “one big item” on the | legislative program of the house military committee in the 1939 Con- | gress. His statement gave added strength | to a well-defined movement in Con- gress to knit the army and navy | more closely together and to merge their air forces. Army and navy of- ficials always have opposed the sug- Merger Sought WASHINGTON, July 7. — Chair- | OFFICIALS OF NIPPON SHOT AND KILLED Puppet Officers Are Also Victms of Crime Wave in Shanghai INTENSIFIED PATROL BEING MAINTAINED Extra Police for Interna- tional Settlement— Armies Deadlocked SHANGHAI, July 7. — Terrorist attacks against the Japanese and Chinese puppet officials has been resumed in this Japanase domin- ated metropolis. All foreign troops, including Unit- ed States Marines and police re- serves, are on intensified patrol of sultry streets to guard the International Settlement and French Concession. Four persons have been killed and five wounded by bombs, gren- ades or bullets. Two Japanese and are dead. A British Colonial soldier was injured in furries of machine gun two Chinese |fire in the outlying districts. Reports of sporadic shooting in the industrial center of Pootung, across the Whangppo River from Shanghai proper, may mean a new | series of attacks by Chinese guer- illa units. The Chinese and Japanese armies are now in deadlock along the Yangtze River near Hankow and | Kiaukiang, the latter 150 miles from FOOCHOW IS AIR RAIDED BY JAPANESE City of One Ml——lion Popula- tion Bombed Three Times Today CANTON, July 7. — An official communique said Japanese planes have raided Foochow. Three raids were made today and 55 bombs are known to have been dropped. Casualties may run into the hun- dreds as Foochow has a population of 1,000,000 residents. e ee—— New Zealand Begs For “Girls, Girls” LONDON, July 7—Miss E. M. Da- kins of Napier, New Zealand, is coming to Britain to persuade girls to go out there. She says that she could place 500 at once at Hawke's Bay alone. Russians Learning In Special Courses How to Spot Spies MOSCOW, July 7.—Detection of spies is being taught to red army officers and political commissars, the latter the communist party's “eyes and ears” among the troops. A new course in their training classes is entitled, “Methods of the struggle against spying, wrecking diversion and terrorist activity of the intelligence services of capital- ist countries and of their Trotsky- ist-Bukharinite agents.” Another indication of the inter- est in secret police activities was the announcement that a detach- ment of troops in Middle Asia would climb, as part of their train- ing, a mountain in Tajikistan named “Mount Red Intelligence Service.” Gas Masks Are Ordered for Paris Residents PARIS, July 7.—An order has been placed for 1,750,000 gas masks, These masks will be distributed free to Paris resi- dents. | gestion,