The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 11, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7842. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, _IVU_LY 11, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HUGHES ON PROJECTED WORLD ELIGHT Pacific Coast Shipping Tieup Again Looms STOPPACE OF WORK ORDERS NOW EXPECTED 10 Dock Werkeis Author- ize Special Committee to Take Action CHARGES ALREADY BEING CIRCULATED Union Leaders Fear At- tempts to Be Made to Cut Wages SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 11 ‘Threats West Coast shipping tieup appeared when CIO dock workers authorized a subcom- mittee to “call a stoppage of work of all longshoremen on the Pacific Coast,” protest against the charge that the employers refuse to renew the present working agr of another as a ee- ments authorized. The subcommittee will decide when the stoppage will be called and how long it will last. Three such stoppages were held last week and another is scheduled for Portland today so the long- shoremen may attend meetings to discuss contracts which expire Sep- tember 30. Union leaders expressed fear that the employers may attempt to cut wages in negotiating the new agree- ment. TO TAKE REFERENDUM PORTLAND, Ore, July 1L — Portland members of the CIO In- ternational Lorjgshoremens’ and Warehousemens’ Union, today rec- ommended a coastwise strike refer- endum be taken if the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association declines to resign existing contracts. TWOSQUAORONS, NAVY BOMBERS STAY IN SEATTLE Bad Weathe?fievenls Pro- posed Flight to Sitka Enroute to Kodiak SEATTLE, July 11—Unfavorable weather has prevented 23 Navy Pa- trol Bombers, Squadrons VP-7 and VP-9, from starting off on a mass flight to Sitka, Alaska, enroute to Kodiak. The flight is now postponed until tomorrow. BATTLE BOATS LIFT ANCHORS THIS MORNING After five days in Juneau, the 10,000-ton cruiser Louisyille left Ju- neau this morning at 2 o'clock, bound for Ketchikan for a three-| day stay before going to Bremerton Navy Yard. The Salt Lake City, another 10,- 000-ton vessel, moved out of Auk Bay this morning at 6 o'clock, bound for Sitka. s Officers on the Louisville ex- plained the reason for moving out into the stream yesterday afternoon | lay in the danger of high wind mak- | ing sailing difficult while at dock, and danger great of the big| ship’s ponderous bulk tearing thei dock down while maneuvering. e, | WHITTIER BACK f M. S. Whittier, Assistant Collector | of Customs, returned to Juneau on ATTACK IS ATTEMPTED, PRESIDENT air, and 11 Hockaday's down Firemen, National Guardsmen and policemen jumped upon Hocka- day, pummelled him and dragged him away Hockaday has been detained in other cities, including Washington, D. C., for eccentricities in the past. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., July 11.—An attempt to jump on the au- tomobile in which President Roose- velt was riding late last Saturday through the city, resulted in the | beating and arrest of Woody Hocka- day, 52. of Wichita, Kas. A secret service man leaped from the President’s car, through the LISTS ARE his first flush into :, knocking him WINS PRIZI LOYA ATTEMPTING TO DEFENDGITIES ] 'Insurgenl Advance Runs, Into Human Wall, Es- | cadan Mountains — | | HENDAYE, July 11.—The Span-| ish Government has rushed all | available reinforcements into the | Escadan Mountains to form a hu-| man wall ‘along the last natural | barrier to the Insurgent advance | against Sagintvo and Valencia. Squadrons of Insurgent planes: have swept over the Government| lines in the mountains in successive bombardments but last reports said the Government lines are still hold- ing. Window Smasher 10 Downing St, Is Un@efir Arrest LONDON, July 11.—An unidenti- | fied man has been arrested for | smashing a window at No. 10 Dowa- |ing Street, the official home of| Great Britain’s Prime Minisier | Chamberlain. PLANE CRASH ~ DUETOPILOT {Man at Con?lici; of Airliner Mrs. Amos S. Grenland, Seat- tle housewife, who submitted the winning slogan. “The Gayest Time Since Forty-Nine,” captur- ing first prize for naming the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition fun zone. Seventeen hundred persons submitted the | name “Gayway” and in the run- off slogan contest Mrs. Gren- land’s slogan was unduplicated by the other 1,699 contestants. Mrs. Grenland plans to visit her aging mother in Illinois with the prize money. HERO DROWNS | Became Confued R AFTER SAVING cided that the pilot’s confusion as to his whereabouts caused the TWA airliner crash near Wawona, Cali-| ST. CLAIR, Missouri, July 11— fornia, on March 1, killing eight. Swimming to the rescue of three The report said the pilot lost his | Persons who called for help, Her- bearings and attempted to turn man Miller, 42, saved two of them back and crashed into the moun- and then drowned in an unsuccess- tain. | ful attempt to save the third. The report said it was not de-| T cided whether John Dee Graves or | Clyde W. Wallace were at the con- | trols at the time of the crash. L3 k4 | sTock QuoTaTions NEW YORK, July 11.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 104, American Can 96, American Light and Power 6%, ‘Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel |57, Commonwealth and Southern SELL SALMUNI‘J Curtiss Wright 5%, General | Motors 377, International Harvest- Seven salmon cargoes were sold er 63';, Kennecott 38%, New York at the Juneau fish exchange yester- Central 17%, Southern Pacific 16%, day and today, with prices prevail- United States Steel 55%, Cities ing at 12-10-5 and 5. Service 9%, Pound $4.92%, North- They were Alms, 2200 pounds; ern Pacific 10%. 31B206, 150 pounds; 31A60, 150 pounds; 31440, 400 pounds; Congo, | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | " INDICATED ON CHINA CITIES United SIaEOlhcr For- eign Powers Warned to Evacuate Nationals SHANGHAI, July 11.—The Unit- |ed States and other foreign powers have been again warned by the Japanese to evacuate citizens from half a dozen Yangtze Valley cities |listed as probable targets in further widespread bombings. The notes to the United States’ | authorities and other foreign na- tions said concentration of Chinese troops at Hankow and other key cities necessitate a bombing cam- paign. PASSI ES AWAY American Rights In China Are fo BeTested Shortly Observers Predict Tighten- ing of Japan Author- ity War Zones WASHINGTON, July 1l-—Ameri- can rights in China, in the opinion of persons close to the State De- partment, will be in greater jeopar- dy during the second year of the Sino-Japanese war than in the first year just ended. Well informed observers predict that after a few more months' of fighting, Japan will pause and con- | solidate all positions of her troops and hold the outer line behind which she will attempt to set up 2 permanent civil government by continuing the existance of the two puppet states at Nanking and Pei- ping, or by joining them into a single entity. It is then when Ja- pan will settle down to govern and the real test will come on the posi- tion of the United States and other powers. New Anchorage - Weather Office To Up_en Sept. 1 Men Are Being Transferred from States to Have Charge of Station The quarters for the new weather | station at Anchorage are expected | to be ready about August 15 and| the station in operation by Sep- tember 1, according to Mebenmln—i .. gist Howard J. Thompson, who re-| turned to Juneau on the Aleuuan;PICKET I-INES after being in Anchorage in con-| | nection with the selection of the| site. He said the station would be | in either the Masonic building or| ~ ARE SPREADING | . . |CIO Purse Seiners Dispatch the 1.O.O.F. building which adjoin and bids have already been sub- Pickets to New Eng- land Fish Co. mitted to Washington. Junior Meteorologist Edwin H. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 11.— {The CIO affiliated purse seiners Chappell, who has been stationed |detailed pickets to the New Eng- BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO Associate Justice Benjamin N Cardozo, of the Supreme Court of the United States, who died last Saturday night at 6:40 o'- k at the home of Justice Ir- vieg Lehman, of the New York Court of Appeals, in Port Ches- ter, N. Y., was born in New York City, May 24, 1870. His parents were Judge Albert Cardozo and Rebecca Washington Nathan Cardezo, both Jews of Old Spanish and Portuguese lineage. Cardozo was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Hoover, on February 15, 1932, as successor to Oliver Wendell Hclmes. Cardozo was a bache- lor. He had been ill with heart trouble since last winter. OBSERVERIS WOUNDED BY AIR RAIDERS MADRID, July 11. Albert Le- ans, Belgian observer for the Eu- ropean Nonintervention Commit- tee, was wounded in an insurgent air raid on Valencia, goal of Gen. Franco’s Mediterranean campaign in the Spanish Civil War. at the airport in Washington, D. C., will be in charge of the new An-| chorage station, Mr. Thompson re-i ported, and Glen L. Bowie, who is now in the forecasting division of the Washington office will be his assistant. It will be the first time Anchorage has had a full time sta- tion. Here is the plane Howard Hughes and four companions hopped world. Photo shows the massive and speedy ship. The Meteorologist said that R. L. land Fish Company last night as Prost, who has been in charge Of‘the latest move in the three weeks the weather station at Fairbanks, controverdsy over prices and bar- has been transferred to Richmond, | gaining. Va. and O. K. Anderson, who has| Union officials were silent and been stationed at Oakland, will take OPerators were unable to say why over the Fairbanks duties. the action was taken. The plant —_—— was being picketed in accordance FINED $25 |nance with four men signed by the | | Roy Osborne was fined $25 in Chief of Police as employees o with the recently enacted city ordi- | AIR BOMBINGS 'Two-Motored Lockheed Plane H ughes Is Fly BUS DRIVER S HERD;SAVES % INCAR WRECK Leads Passengers to Safety| —Then Goes Back to Make Further Search BLUEFIELD, W. Va, July 11. Driver R. D. Brawley led 35 pas gers from his wrecked and flam- ing bus last night and then bruised and cut, crawled back through the machine with a flashlight to make | certain none were trapped. The bus careened off the road into an embankment and burst into flames -ee T HALIBUTERS - SELL, SEATTLE | ! SEATTLE, July 11.— Halibuters |arriving and selling today follow: From the western banks—Wizard | 40,000 pounds, 8% and 8% cents a pound; Federal 23,000 pounds 8% |and 8'% cents | From the local banks—Argo 18,- 000 pounds, Wireless 18,000 pounds | BEastern 16,000 pounds, Dawn 1,000 | pounds, Husky L 7,000 pounds, sell- ing for an average of 9% and 7 cents a pound. i OTHER QUOTATIONS At Prince Rupert 76,000 pounds of halibut were sold today at 7.70 to 8.50 and 6 cents. | At Ketchikan prices were 6% and | 4% cents a pound. e FISHING PARTY 1S PICKED UP BY SHELL SIMMONS Elroy Ninnis’s Boat Breaks Down, Stranding Four at Shelter Island Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Ninnis and Mr. and Mrs. Drew Painter, started out for a strip fishing trip to | Shelter Island yesterday morning lin Ninnis's speedboat, but came back by airplane early this morn- ing. ! When the four did not show up late yesterday evening, Fred Bar- ragar sent the Alaska Air Trans- port Lockheed, with Shell Simmons out to hunt for them. | Simmons took off at 1:30 this morning, on his third night emer- gency hop in ten days, found Nin- nis and party on the beach at Shelter Island with the speedboat | engine broken down, and brought them to town. | Ninnis took another boat out to ! Shelter Island this morning to tow in his own craft. LR SR SR LEGION MEETS TONIGHT Actlon of the local Post on chang- | es in by-laws to come up at the Ket- | chikan convention is scheduled at| en- | ing 1 off in for a projected flight around the HOWARD HUGHES | { Wealthy aviator and movie pro- ducer now on attempted speed flight around the world and who, if successful, will fly over Alaska. ARMY BOMBER CRASHES, TWO MEN ARE DEAD Plane Goes Down at Pan- ama City, Department of War, Announces WASHINGTON, July 11. — The War Department announces an Army bomber crashed at Pana- ma City and two men aboard have been killed. Those killed are Lieut. Paul R. Gowman, of Caldwell, Idaho, and Private Gareth Bundy. Major burns were sustained by Lieut. Kenneth Crosher. A Ayt FOUR ARRIVE WITH ELECTR Four passengers were flown to Juneau from Fairbanks yesterday in a PAA Electra, piloted by S. E. Robbins and Walt Hall. They were Lipman Simpson, Lew Stern, Wendel Paush and Helen Eastman, Midnight, July 29, | Closing Date for EHalibut, This Area Halibut fishing will end at mid- | night July 29 in Area No. 1, from| | Willapa Harbor south, and Area| No. 2, Cape Spencer to Willapa, ac- | cording to a message to the U. 8. Customs office today from Edward | W. Allen of the Interrfational PFish-| eries Commission. This will include all Southeast Alaska. The July 29 closing is a day later that| | the meeting of Alford John Brad- | than last year, and on July 1, 1938, MILLIONAIRE " MAKING DASH TO BEAT TIME, GLOBE CIRCLE Hops Off from New York with Four Companions— Fast Flight Over Atlantic —Lands Safely, Paris BULLETIN—PARIS, July 1L —A slight crack in the tail and bad weather as far as Danzig caused Hughes to delay his hop to Moscow until tomorrow. The crack was discovered after the plane was whelled to the run- way preparatory to the takeoff. Hughes expressed disappoint- ment but said he believed he can still beat Wiley Post’s time if he can hop tomorrow at dawn. A Lockheed expert has been summoned from London by plane to work on the dam- aged tail. LANDS IN PARIS PARIS, July 11.—Howard Hughes |and his four companions landed at | Lebourget Flying Field at 4:58 p.m. | (Paris Time). He glided to an easy |landing. His time was 16 hours, 38 | minutes, less than half the time \made by Col. Lindbergh, which was |83% hours. | Hughes s expected to remain here only long enough to refuel, | then hop for Moscow on the world girdling flight, hoping to complete | the flight in six days. | Hughes was the first to alight |from the plane. With a broad grin, he said: “We had arfine trip.” | The plane slipped into the Le- |bourget Flying Field unexpectedly lout of the clouds. It was first ‘thought, to be a British commercial |plane which is the same type as the Hughes plane. Hughes had about 250 gallons of |gas left. Earlier he had radioed |that he feared he did not have sufficient gas to make the field. If Hughes maintains his present |speed he could arrive in Moscow |nearly 24 hours ahead of Wiley Post’s arrival in 1933. If all goes | well Hughes should reach Moscow {in 26 hours and 40 minutes out of |New York. Post was 50 hours and |10 minutes making the flight, New | York to Moscow. | | } THEY'RE OFF NEW YORK, July 11.—Howard | Hughes, millionaire sportsman, and |four companions, hopped off from the Floyd Bennett field at 3 o'clock |Sunday afternoon (Pacific Coast Time) on a projected 3,600-mile nonstop flight to Paris. Two hours and 20 minutes later, | the fliers reported by radio to flight |headquarters at the World's Fair ‘Groumg,: they were 420 miles off | Nova otia, and all was going | well. If the flight is completed, it will /be the first nonstop flight, New | York to Paris, since Col. Charles |A. Lindbergh’s epochal flight in 1927. | The New York to Paris flight is the fight leg in a planned round the world flight via Moscow, Si- beria, Fairbanks and Edmonton. Hughes, when he started, said he hoped to break the globe circling |record of 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes set by the late Wiley Post in 1933. As the plane took off, Hughes was in the pilot’s seat, Ed Lund was alternate engineering mechanic jand besides him were Harry Con- nor and T. L. Thurlow, navigator, and Richard Stoddart, radio en- gineer. COAST GUARD READY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 11. —America’s Coast Guardsmen, wise in the ways of the Arctic, are ready |to offer any needed radio guidance to Hughes on his flight when his |big monoplane reaches eastern Si- |beria for the stretch across Bering |Strait to Alaska’s Seward Penin- [ | the Prince George after accom- 500 pounds; and 31A15, 200 pounds,| |U. 8. Commissioner’s court today Picket the plant. panying the vessel to Haines where selling to Alaska Coast Fisheries, The following are today’s Dow, on a charge of assault growing out Previously, picketing has been| ford Post, American Legion, tonight | the halibut catch for the year was he cleared her after parties were and the packer Fern, selling 9,000/ Jones averages: industrials 134.56, of o ATE O Assaull BroWIng Ot | onfined to the Ketchikan Packing |In the Dugout, starting at 8 0| 1200000 pounds under that of the|SUl8, ki Lisut. Frapk X Johe- permitted ashore. jpounds to New England. rails 2661, utilities 2123, ! cashel, | Company. | clock. year previous, 1 (Continued on Page Three)