The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7845. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS m—— PRICE TEN CENT ex - JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1938. HUGHES BREAKS WORLD FLIGHT RECORD - » » L L4 * * * * * » » * » * * * » * * » * * * * * * Encircles Globe in Less Than Four Days NATION READYT[] “Month to Live” Girl Better |JAPAN CANCELS JOIN MOVE FOR DISARMAMENT But Unsafe to Do So Singly Under Present Condi- tions, President. States SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 14. President Roosevelt said in a speech at the exposition grounds here today that the United States is ready to encourage other lead- ing nations “in any efforts they may make toward reduction of the world’'s armament.” Soon after reviewding the battle fleet of 80 vessels, he said: “The Navy is not merely a sym- bol. It is a potent and ever ready fact of national defense. Every right thinking man and woman in the United States wishes it were safe for the nation to spend less of the national budget on armed forces. But all know that we face a condition and not a theory, and a condition not of our own choos- ing. “We fervently hope for the day when other leading nations will| realize that their present course must inevitably lead them to dis- aster, but we stand ready to meet | and encourage them in any effort toward definite reduction in world | armaments.” | —e——— ! C10 UNIONISTS DRIVEN OUT IN | YNCHINGS GET STREET BATTLE RISE FROM SEN. Battle Climaxes Strike in; WAGNER UF N'Y. California Town — Ob- | jections to Wage Cut a ga |Demands Federal Investiga- tion of Two Affairs in Southland ALBANY, N. Y, July 14—Sena- | tor Robert F. Wagner today called |for a Federal investigation of what beaten | o gescribed as a recént brutal WESTWOOD, Cal, July 14. Small groups of CIO unionists and their familes, driven from West- | wood yesterday after a riot between lumber factions, straggled back to- day asking to be allowed to get their belongings. One man was shot, and 30 in a street battle that almost| ynching of two southern negroes. brought out Fhe National Guard‘ The call for the investigation is and Coast Artillery troops. made in a telegram to Attorney Some 750 CIO sawmill Wm'kem;GencraI Homer S. Cummings: and their families camped on Lhe‘ Senator Wagner urged highway last night. | into the lynchings which took place Yesterday's battle climaxed a|in rapid succession at Hollingfork, strike called by the CIO unionists |y and Arabi, Ga. against the Red River Lumber | | W amh G Company. The group objected to a M 1LWU Designated SENATOR BORAH ' Bargairing Agert For Longshoremen GETTING BETTER Pacific Coast Waterfront Idaho Veteran Collap§es as Result of Strain | Eanplisers Make OF- from Overwork fer to Union WASHINGTON, July 14—Sena-| tor William E. Borah, veteran from| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 14. Idaho, is reported greatly improved| —The Pacific after ten days in bed following a|Emplovers have offered to recog- collapse’ from overwork. | nize the International Longshore- | mens and Warehousemens Union as |a bargaining agent for stevedores NEW PAA TRUCK |in all but four Pacific C:asrpor::, RUNNING TODAY‘Tacoma. Olympia, Port Argeles and ‘Anacortt‘s‘ all on Puget Sound. ‘The longshoremen of those ports have not indicated preference for ing a literally “shiny new truck.”| s a4 | the ILWU in proceedings now be- The Ford V-8 came out of lhe‘rure the Labor Board. pnlntvs}.\‘op_ today, with the f'lylng; PAA insignia, and bright aluminum BRIDGE AND TRAIL : WORK STARTS AT Pacific Alaska Airways is sport- paint characteristic of PAA equip- | ment. Trimmed in blue, it's a| “snappy Jjob.” pital suffering frcm a mysterious glandular shock, phy- in weight of three pounds. M (;fgenthau, Eccles F iigh—-tr . It Out Over Features of New Pump-Priming Scheme a probe | Coast Waterfront| BEING HOST T0 OLYMPIC GAMES Announcement [s Made To- day in Tokyo—Nation Is Given Surprise TOKYO, July 14—The Japanese Government has suddenly aban- | doned plans to be host to the 1940 Olympics because of the probabl: duration of the China war. The cost of financing the games is given as the reason for the can- cellation by Public Welfare Minister Marquis Koichi Kido. The an- nouncement surprised the entire na- | tion. ALTERNATE SITES | NEW YORK, July 14.—Abandon- | ment of the Olympic Games at Tok- yo leave Helsingsfor or London as | almost the probable allernate sites | for the big sports. The International Olympic Games Committee will make the se- | lection for the games, probably at an immediate meeting. Cleveland will make a bid for the games with New York and Phila- delphia as outside contenders bui |as Los Angeles had the games in | 1932, an European city will pro- | bably be given preference. §24 Navy Bombers ' Complete Flight; Seattle to Kodiak (above), 21, was taken to n a month. But 31 days later prediction, and had recorded | GROVER | R | | WASHINGTON, July 14.— Alm()wl: every Saturday, Marriner 8. Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve | Board, drives over to the Treas for lunch with Secretary Morgen- | p~ . thau. Often it is a pleasant little Fl“,\"four Planes Now mj| affair | Alaska—Largest Num- But in late weeks if the lunch-| A g ge b | eon has been pleasant it is to the| surprise of observers, who have| noted growing rivalry between the| SEATTLE, July 14—Twenty-four two for the ear of the President|Navy Patrol bombers of Squadron ber in History and for the advancement of con-| VP-7 and VP-9 arrived in Kodiax hind the scenes, opposed the pump- | attle. priming plan. Eccles favored it and Squadron VP-7, arrived in Ko- More recently an equally sharp| The two squadrons swelled the conflict arose between the twg on number of bombers now in Alaska policy that was hard to write into| Navy aircraft in Territorial skies headlines but was nonetheless im- in history, edge. By an agreement of the Treasury NEGRU HUNS (both Morgenthau's), the Deposit | Insurance Corporation <indepen~‘ dent) and Eccles’ federal reserve,| banks were given leeway, such as| Out of the agreement are ex- pected several things: and repairs amounting, in estimates! Wounded, Then Slay_ here, to many millions, or perhaps| I h ‘ er Is Shot Down 2—Benefit to big industry in fill- | ing machinery and equipment or-| ders for little industry’s moderniza- Persons were killed and one wound- | tion. |ed when a 40-year-old negro went | | |ing community as it expands its| R. D. Register, the negro, was business and checks the tendency killed by John Smith, storekeeper, /in’ with credit where banks lately Newell Ellison, a white man, Leon-| have refused to go. |ard Hughey, negro, and wounded FOR LIBERAL ATTITUDE | Several deaths in Register’s fam- | ily probably made the negro’s mind flicting views. Morgenthau, be-|after an uneventful flight from Se- the President liked it. diak at 8:20 o’'clock last night. lan important bit of government!/to 54, the largest concentration of portant. And again, Eccles had an R, il and controllery of the currency, they had not had in many a day, in lending money to small local in-| TEXAS TUWN | dustry. | |l ity or " modernzaton Three Persons Killed, One a bilion or more. | HAWKINS, Texas, July 14.—Four 3—A healthier glow in the bank- | berserk. jof the Federal government to step | after Register had killed his wife, | e/ | Roy Allen, former Postmaster. snap. Keystone in the agreement is (the liberalization of the attitude | of bank examiners toward banks in | | approving loans to small industry. RADIQ CLUB' IS For 70 years or more the con- To MEET TONIGHT |Principal Hopgood Will Readv for Fourth Expediti Bennett Field, N. Y. Ellsworth will leave shortly to Antarctic, to explore about 1,200 miles of land and ice between coast line i ints his wife some technical points of his new ai Lincoln Ellsworth, the explorer, points out to his wi e e ition. ot Capagown. el ion Into Antarctic lane, at Floyd ourth trip into and the South of Enderby Land Pole, which he terened “the last unexplored portion of the globe.” KIDNAPER DIES, ELECTRIC CHAIR, FOR HIS CRIME Seadlund Pays Penalty for Abducting, Slaying of Wealthy Man CHICAGO, 111, July 14. — John Henry Seadlund paid with his own life for kidnaping and slaying of Charles 8. Ross in Illinois last Sep- tember. Seadlund was electrocuted under the Lindbergh Kidnap Law. Seadlund kidnaped Ross, wealthy business man, took him to a hidden spot in lonely woods in Wisconsin, secured $50,000 ransom, and then| killed his victim. Seadlund was captured by G-men in California at the San Anita race| track, spending some of the ran- som money. Juneau-Dougfas Indian Schools To Bfl:umhined‘ Have Charge of Both— Higher Grades, Douglas ] The Juneau and Douglas Indian S rats schools will be operated as one unit) Deauty oconfest sf Bants Cata- starting with the fall term with| % Istand, Cal The titian- James. L. Hopgood, who has been| Daired miss won the title fromn stationed at Cape Prince of Wales| Several score besutious conten- for the last two years in charge| 9€r at the palm fronded beach as prineipal, it was announced to- in Avalon. day by Claude M. Hirst, Director of | Education for the Office of Indian | tor said, due to the limited quarters| ER UE R' Billie Wallace, who was recent- ly proclaimed “Miss Catalina” at the 1938 summer bathing las school, which is the finest school | building the Indian service has in| | troller of the currency, director of | bank examiners, has emphasized All members of the Alaska Ama-| teur Radio Club are urged to at-| | tend the regular meeting and sochli | the importance of keeping banks not only sound but liquid. At the | of the organization which is sched- time of the “big flood” in 1929 and later, runs on banks were so fre- The action was taken, the Direc- in the Juneau school and the bet-| ter facilities offered by the Dousz-| the Territory. From first through I n A H 0 Ml N E fourth grades will be taught in both | Juneau and Douglas and the fifth| HERBERT RIVER| JUNEAU WATER CO. Work is underway on the horse HEAD COMING NORTH 1idor acvoss Hervert Riser wihere |the old suspension bridge was R. F. Lewis of San Francisco, washed out last winter and also owner of the Juneau Water Com- on the trail leading to the summit pany, and Mrs. Lewis are expecting |at Yankee Basin, Assistant Re- to sail from Seattle Saturday gional Forester Wellman Holbrook aboard the Aleutian for their an-|announced today. Foreman Matt J. nual visit to Juneau, according to|{Warden with a crew of eight men word received here. " started the trail work this week. | quent and furious that many wenv.} iunder because they could not sell | perfectly “sound” but “slow” ue-| curities in a depression market. The banking laws were revised |in 1933 %o provide that Federal bank examiners would approve| |few long-time loans by banks ex- |cept to concerns whose securities (Continued on Page Three) | through eighth will be centered in uled for 8 o'clock this evening, to|{pe ¢ i ' which each member may take a|peing inaugurated to take the Ju- guest. Members and their guests neau children over, he explained. lbuned today -undes. fone. of. debuly | are to meet at the Juneau Radio| Principal Hopgood will teach and | | Shop at 8 o'clock. Prom there they | supervise in both schools under the | will go to Walter Roff's home where ynit system and will be the only the meeting will take piace. Mem- | aqdition. to the teaching statf in| bership cards will be presented and | making the change. Teachers in| it is important that everyone at-| juneau will be Mrs. Janea B. Al- tend as several important issues — " must. be balloted upon. (Continued on Page Two) | Douglas building, a bus service SALMON, Idaho, July 14. — Two| | miners were killed when they were in a cave-in near here. “The victims, Carl Sylvester and Leonard Lilya, died when a tunnel collapsed in a mine in the Yellow Jack mining district. — e — BOMBS AGAIN RAINED UPON CANTON CITY One Hundred andFifty Per- sons Killed, 500 Re- ported Injured CANTON, China, July 14.—Japa- {[nese aerial bombs killed probably 11150 and injured over 500 in the third successive days bombing. Thirty-seven war planes made the attack today. PR SR \Excursion Inlet Cannery Man Is Hun._Eprnsiun 0. S .Syre Badly Burned as Dan, Jr., Blows Up and Sinks O. 8. Syre, Superintendent of the Astoria Puget Sound cannery at Ex- cursion Inlet, was critically burned about the face and hands yester- day when the 40-foot cabin cruiser Dan Jr., blew up near the cannery. Syre was flown to Juneau last night by Marife Airways pilot Alex Holden and is in St. Ann's Hospi- tal under the care of Dr. L. P. Dawes. Mrs, Syre accompanied her husband to Juneau from the can- nery. This morning at the hospital, Mrs. Syre told the story of the accident. “My husband and my 11-year-old son, Robert, left the cannery at 11:30 in the boat to make an in- spection trip around the traps. The accident must have happened about a half hour later, around the Point, at Pleasant Island. Big Explosion “Mr. Syre said Robert was at the wheel and he was just going to come up through the engine room to join him. When he opened the engine room door there was a big explosion in his face.” Robert at the wheel was unin- jured, although his hair was singed. His father, though severely burned and shocked—he had been thrown over backwards when the explosion occurred—tried to get life belts out of a locker jammed by the blast. Leap Into Sea Australia has 9 inhabitants per square mile, Burning his hands terribly while (Continued on Page Two) PLANE DRIVEN AT FULL SPEED ON FINAL LAP Total Elapsed Time Is Giv- en as 91 Hours and 16 Minutes WILD CROWD GREETS FLIERS AT AIRPORT Chief Pilot Declares He Will Never Attempt Sim- ilar Trip Again FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, N. Y., July 14—Howard Hughes and his four companions landed at this airport at 1:36 o'clock this after- noon, Eastern Standard Time. Hughes landed with a smashing round the world record of less than four days. The big plane circles the field twice before coming down. The total elapsed time, unofficial- ly, is 91 hours and 16 minutes. The ship whipped in under a threatening overcast sky with a record that more than halved Wiley Post’s round the world record of 7 days 18 hours and 49 minutes. Hughes drove the plane at full speed during the last lap and was aided at times by a 60-mile tail- wind. The fliers flew an estimated 25,000 miles and average speed was 160 miles an hour. The fliers werc unshaven and weary as they hac Lad little sleep from the time they started from here 6:20 o'clock, Eastern Standard time, last Sunday. “Try It Again, Never” Hughes got out of his plane and was asked: “Would you try it again?” “Never,” he quickly replied. The crowd at the airport was the wildest since the welcome to Col. Charles A. Lindgergh after his Paris flight. Hughes wore the same battered brown felt hat and rumpled gray shirt as when he left las. Sunday evening. Hughes was not with the party which left the airport for the Man- hattan parade and it is belleved he left for an unannounced destina- tion to meet Katharine Hepburn, movie star, to whom is has fre- quently been reported he is en- gaged. Miss Hepburn is reported to have come to New York City last night. Crack Time Made Hughes rounded the world in less time than it takes crack liners to cross the Atlan{c Ocean. ‘The flight is reported to have cost $300,000, all borne by Hughes and he said he would not have missed it, as he supposed it has added $8,000,009 to the $17,000,000 his father left him. LANDS AT MINNEAPOLIS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 14.— Hughes landed here at 5:37, Pacif- ic Coast Time, and after speedy re- fueling of the plane, took off at 6:11 for New York, The plane was not reported for several hours and all Canadian sta- tions had been asked to listen in. Hughes’ elapsed time here was 66 hours and 49 minutes. He lost his radio antenna over the mountains w;g;ch made communication impose sible. Thomas Thurlow, Navigating of- ficer, said that notwithstanding the lose of communication, no difficul- ties were experienced. Weather from Pairbanks, Alaska, was excellent except during a briaf period when lightning was seen. Hughes said he slept only about four hours since he started the flight from New York City last Sun- day at 3 o'clock (Pacific Coast u:n&). He and L. Lund alternated at the controls but an auto most of the work. i Hughes is supposing to be using equipment on the United States Army’s secret list and no one is al- lowed to get inside the plane. WORLD FLIERS STOP ONLY SHORT TIME AT FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 14.— Howard Hughes and his four com- gl s 0 i (Continued on Page Three)