The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1938, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7846. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — | JAPANESE ADVANCE REPORTED STALLED \ . PURSE SEINERS Strikers Hold “Baby Party” in Protest . AR BASE AT %Hughes Declares Post’s Solo CHINESE—HAI.T STRIE SHENS | K BN e i Fitory, NVADERS ON - } GnunifiEpuflTfRecord Breaker Tells offilinciirdénts on Globe Encircling RIVER SECTUR Ketchikan CIO Asks Sup- by Trip—Plenty of Bad Weather Encountered—Never There Regardl Saw a Wave in Crossing Over Atlantic—Makes New ports Ihere Regardless of Union Affiliation % \Enginecrs Pronounce Site| Satisfactory — Naval Flight Tomorrow Nippon Forces Have Not Moved Forward During Past Three Days Map of Northern Russia — Will Never Attempt Another Such Hop KODIAK, Alaska, July 15.— PETERSBURG, Alaska, July 15 Twenty-four Navy patrol bombers,| NEW YORK, July 15. — Howard so close to the ship and never al- TR, —Canneries here are not operat- Squadrons vP-11 and VP-12, are | Hughes, who has just completed & |lowed anyone to enter it. WAR VESSELS SAID ing and a mass meeting was held scheduled to fly here nonstop to-|record-breaking flight around the - here tod: sponsored by CIO, at morrow from the Sitka Air Base. |globe with four companions, said: | CATCHES UP ON SLEEP TO HAVE BEEN SUNK which representatives from Ketchi- kan asked support of Petersburg ‘Their arrival will bring the total | “The only dangerous part of UIL‘L NEW YORK, July 15. — Howard number of flying boat at this base | flight was the takeoff from the| Hughes, the world’s new symbol for Government Forces, Span. seiners regardless of affiliation. to 47. Floyd Bennett field for Paris. | speed, has caught up on his sleep. . l’l F The AFL seiners held a meeting Navy enginers examining the Ko- | “I had to take too much gas for| Hughes slept 17 hours and before 18 ront, Slrength- and <Ir>virlod_lhv_v could nryvt support diak base pronounce it satisfactory | the ship's size, consequently I breakfast this morning, informed all enmg ReSlStanCC the CIO seiners strike as a local for the planned developments. smashed part of the rear wheel. | newspapers he was ready for ex- group without ascertaining what po- Congress has appropriated $5,- “I ¥ , tensive interviews and also an- ¥ had had only three or four (By Associ: sition other AFL groups would take. 000,000 for the air base here. hours sieep since a couple of days nounced he would accept phone ¥ e Erase) At a mass meeting yesterday - before T took off. °" | calls. The tide of battle shifted to the oo a4 Hughes will spend some time in|advantage of defensive forces in B I G AIRL'NER On the flight “": ate “‘“’““‘1)113 room telephoning and writing [Spain and China today. canned goods. When we got ""“““‘im all parts of the world and pre-| The Japanese drive up the we opened a can and had our eats.”| paring his article for the National Yangtze River towArd Hankow, tem- nili :":":Y f}: Bad :’zx:;hrr' le q|Acronautical Association regdrding | porary Chinese capital, appeared ) ughes further said: made a|nis flight. stalled below Kiukiang, -25 miles new map of Northern Russia, as| Tpe Association announced today|downriver from Hankow. when I Ilfw over I found the hY‘*”‘! that his official elapsed time onthe| Nippon forces have made no graphic survey maps were WIOng.|world flight is 91 hours, 8 minutes|marked advance for the past three sponsored by the Alaska Purse Sein- ers Union, delegates from Wrangell stated théir town was 100 percent AFL and all seiners were fishing and the canneries running. The meeting was marked by statements and counter statements by AFL and CIO members but there were no resolutions and it was agreed there was nothing to do but wait until| When we left Yakutsk, the map gng 190 seconds. days and Chinese sources insist the of workers by a vigilante group” which the message declared was or- ganized by “merchants” in Ketchi- kan. It alleged that “life and prop- erty of striking seiners” has been threatened. The message was signed “Oliver Welfare, J. F. Jurich, Ernst Fox, George Lane.” Gov. John W. Troy said he had referred the matter to Senator Nor- man R. Walker at Ketchikan, who Picketing members of the Steel Workers Organiziny Committee, a CIO affiliate, on strike at a Los An- showed mountains no higher than| settlement at Ketchikan. — * The wheels of his plane left the g5 gelec plant of the American Can Company, are shown as they appeared in children’s costumes in a ; T 3 6500 feet. We spotted some moun-| runway at 620 pm. Sunday. East. J"Tp;“'e‘e""ceh’l‘:e"“e";;’_ hie heerk siomned PURSE SEINE “baby party” stunt in protest against the claimed threat to hire high school students as workers at the Italian Awiation Suffers|iains 9,600 feet. lor’” Standhrd {Tine. £rben EhE ke that 455 Jagnm:":::';d del; DEMAND “PROTECTION" | plant. Whret Digaster in Hhst 7|5 We Fad PIenl-CERNE weaster. Floyd Bennet, Alrport, and touched |have been sunk or badly damaged 3 . . p © WA4Y | there again yesterday at 1:34.10 o'-|in the S Demanding “adequate protection | [_‘ ¢ < tory that Country across the Atlantic. We sighted Tre-| clock it the aftornoen. rm;h L:o wbeekh s': for members of organized labor now rley Congratula es (Gree; S land through a hole In the clouds. | The actual fiying time is - nob n Spanish Front gn a legally constituted strike” a a n | ROME, July 15.—Twenty persons “We had lots of ice at high alti-| announced until official records are| COVer ©on the Spanish front, a group believed to represent the | perished in the greatest Italian civil | tudes but a new type of anti-ice|received from Moscow, Omsk and|Stiffened resistance by Government striking CIO purse seiners in Ket-| | aviation disaster early today whvn;f‘m'blu'l‘lm' saved us. Sometimes we! yakutsk. troops in eastern Spain has com- chikan radioed the Governor’s of-| ‘ y y | the Cagliari-Rome airliner plunged flew as high as 16,000 feet. Hughes was given a typical pelled Insurgents to widen their fice today charging “intimidation ‘ | into the Tyrrhenian Sea, 70 miles Praise for Post Broadway welcome in the downtown | [Font- Franco’s forces are striking | [off the Sardinian Coast. “I believe Wiley Post’s achieve-|section. Flags were hoisted, also|astWard toward Valencia and the | The accident occurred while the|ment in flying solo around the world | banners, and the crowd threw|Mediterranean coast, but their ad- | | tri-motored plane was flying on|was the most remarkable job in fly- |shredded newspapers and telephone | V31¢€ has been perceptibly slowed. the regular route to Rome. ing ever done and probably ever|books by the arms full from high Among the victims are six wo-|will be done. I cannot imagine how , windows. YN B2 S i | | _|men including “wo sisters and a|he did it ‘Three hundred policemen were ‘,UHICSS Labor Troubles In {niece of Gen Giuseppe Valle,| “What Post did is something like stationed along the route. The sani- | | !erfere, Offlcnal Expects | Under-Secretary of Aviation. sawing a woman in half or pulllng‘\mtion department stationed 15 . | It is indicated that the plane|rabbits out of a hat. Some people|street flushers to follow the parade Fflll’l)’ Normal Year 1(1;441('(1 in flames. believe there have been other|and clean the street. _— flights more important, but fliers has been named by the Governor | Unless labor disputes hold up SIX BODIES RECOVERED | know Post’s feat was the greatest in| MEDAL TO BE AWARDED to represent the Territory in the operations, Alaska should pack| ROME, July 15. — A searching | the world. T will never make such a WASHINGTON, July 15. — The sPAN T controversy. : | about six million ca: of salmon |plane has found the wreckage of|flight again.” | Army and Navy Union has decided & Conciliater O’Connor of the La- this season, it is estimated by Al- the Italian airliner which fell into| Hughes revealed for the first time|to award Howard Hughes the an- | the sea, killing 20. Six bodies have| he used some of the United States' nual medal for the outstanding 3 ‘bm»n recovered, according to «|government’s new secret aviation|aviation achievement for the year.! 1 ]| rived here this morning aboard the | radio from the plane. equipment and instruments and;Dmk Merrill won the medalylastlwomen and Chlldren Kllled new Bureau speed boat after com- | Ly that is the reason the fliers stayed | year. when Insurgent Planes SR pleting a four-day trip of inspec- | 54 Wales region. | o | 15.—Insurgent air raiders killed “With Bristol Bay having reached | | thirteen persons, mostly women the million-case mark last evening u" Ips va[ | and children, and injured 20 bor Department was understood to be arriving in Ketchikan today. .- — . ¢ | aska Agent L. G. Wingard, who ar- FIRESRAGING, B ¥~ [~ W=~ . WASH, STATE _ Bivpans-. S 17 SHR® o oovcimos e N QUICK TIME Pacific Route FOR THIS PORT ook == Territory will produce four and a William Green (right), president of the American Federation of Labor, | half million cases by the time pack- The air raiders dropped 120 SEATTLE, July 15. — Scores of gets a pat on the back from Postmaster General James A, Farley after ing operations close, providing la- LIGONIER, Pa, July 15. —| bombs. fires today dotted the Northwest the labor lend]er finished a speech at a dinner in New York. The occasion | por disputes and difficulties do not| The sting ol‘a honey bee killed SEATTLE, Jul: = i ;h.nbex- d]a;ds v‘;hlch are extremely | ;?r;ei:y?:il:‘:}fof:iih JiOM;mn. Ofts:t}l L:m;‘, pl‘fesll‘dentt :)f t}ée _lt{oz continue to interfer with opera-| Mrs, Naney Hamlin Shaffer, |Maritime Chairman Believes | aska sailed 'a',léyoéls&c_ks'fism;i ,‘-l:- !é anm aZ”e zuinn view, Wash. 3 Labor Union Cponzreqs ifle Lo'nd(.): il b HiEs . Al Shld, Aceqie) Spatty minutes after ‘ i g Ao the Boulheusl Alagisy ';o ;‘ ne blaze nea gview, Wash., . 3 The official expressed an opin-| she was stung in the throat Northwest-Orient Serv- : ol covers about 20,000 acres, menacing s s, gy P e g . route with 224 first class and six- small community houses. B ¥ T S8 AL SLERIR: ¢ lon that the rure Would. be lafe| while wesking in her garden. ice to Be Resumed teen steerage passengers aboard Another fire ‘in Hood Canal is b C l' . throughout the entire Southeast The attending physician said pilk Do Passengers booked for Junelau‘ ot eson o o3 1o - Eontangling Complication: area duc o cold weather and | he sting resuiled in a swelling | aboara the. Alaska inciude. Don 3 tmen % 8 kire sk tions storms, but predicted an almostnor-| which strangled the woman. WASHINGTON, July 15.—EmOory | LaViolette, Rudolph Holmes, T. C.| any s mal year for the Southeast if can- S. Land, Chairman of the Mari-|Kelly and wife, Mrs, Frank Pom.| e < 4 ighters are on the - | a 4 5 x,fi,fi’l"fin"ffi?s [ét:nem H t MmTul bysgri;em ]aihorb A hoped that service will be resumed | Mrs, Jane McConnell, D. J. Mc-|Believes Production Will ; i st is behind previ- ed Hal f i T Wrecks System Is in € e n ¥ | rec 2 Stem sin our s“nuh years for several reasons,” he cific Northwest-Orient trade route.| H. W. Hanson, Gretchen De Leo Hit Increase Trend in A T ke | said. “Some plants are not operat- B M T A RTS | Land advised the Beattle Cham-| violette Vanderline. ! Near Future N RTHLAND By PRESTON GROVER ing, others are on curtailed produc- | ber of Commerce he believed that (purposes of reorganization ,as is|tion and several are now shut down | operation of a Government-owned WASHINGTON, July 15. — WPA | | D WASHINGTON, July 15-Troni-|the Milwaukee, the court decides pending further labor negotiations.” | service “affords the only reasonable . 11; . it would happen that|whether injury claims shall be ————— | 4 2 Administrator Harry L. Hopking 28 TRIPPERS uN cally enough, it woul Pi {prospect for solution of this diffl. y said today that despite the 2,853,354 | the worst railroad accident in a|paid right away or be listed behind pRl v g 5 A : | He added that no Government persons on rellef rolls, he is opti | do; years should occur on the|other creditors. 1 | " misti th 1 | troubled Milwaukee, which now is| There are two elements to en- I a ss“e . eanels ‘are How (EeSilabla but’ e | c over the employment situa- JUNE Au vnYAGE courage claimants in Tecent years Troops, Police Suddenly e, orzn or ca;uon. are reported to have been burned. Arise ()ri ACCOllnt Of Tr ain neries are not prevented from oper- E xp[flm" UF time Commission, said today it Was| erene. | \ “in the near future” on the Pa-|Rea, Frank Cafferty, Fred Hallford, undergoing reorganization in Fed- | going 2 expected to get some soon, which “Production is on the way up |eral Court. The result may be an|First, courts frequently put claims| wra" ge" P u Called Qut Over Inci- |would be alioted to the Northwest |and T am convinced there is going | 1 Uy i | increase in the entangling compli-|of accident victims well to the . l service. | | SEATTLE, July 15. — Motorship| cations growing out of damage|front, far ahead of bond holders dent in Jerusalem | NEW YORK, July 15. — Orator|!0 bé a substantial increase, bus Northland sailed for Southeast Al- | suits which always follow these|and like creditors. Often injury Francis Woodward of Leroy, N. Y. whetlier it will come this month or ing with 58 passengers aboard, the Repair crews usually are only|penses, which means that the court (] l;amar 1 5 toting. today SEATTLE, July 15.—Advices were his first wife when they were di- | 531d. following booked for Juneau: | one jump ahead of lawyers for the will permit the company to pav And Bed s it g aad potice {0 received here today from the Mari-|vorced in 1829, has been ordered to| R s T Mrs. Elvira Russell, Miss Carol injured and claims agents for the|them at once. Second, one compe- AT the mneg i time Commission that four cargo-|pay his second wife, Mrs. Mary | Russell, Mr. and Mrs, Christinsen, | railroad, so that on top of its other | tent authority —here says murl‘$275 000 Be S Six UAtah Killed Land. 4d| PAgCORRE ships costing $10,000,000 | Trask Woodward, $30,000 a year ali-| Miss Alice Gallier, Michael Mulhall | 16gal troubles the Milwaukee will|awards for injuries or deaths on B to pent on Sl s were | may be in operation next year from | mony. | There are 28 round trippers also| be dickering for many days with|railroads have been growing more | New Federal Structure The pt;lice e i vates ot thé Seattle to the Orient. She charged he once threw a| making the voyage. glaims made by thre three-score in-|liberal in recent years, causing lhr*‘ 4 oid ol aplel | The craft will be operated by a|plate of creamed chicken at her PITAL As b D 4 R |jured and relatives of ,the more|lines to settle more often without| This Fall y. Government-owned service, but|and chased her around the room * U 4 |than two score who were Killed| court fights. | Att& Bo'_"‘Cha‘l S meanwhile, it was learned that ships | until police arrived. | | | | when the train crashed through a| Damages for employees injured| WASHINGTON, July 15. — The Y, rie; to replace the now idle American| Mrs. Woodward estimated her | STOCK QUOTATIONS ! |50 - weakened bridge in Mon-|or killed in the wreck must by law | Treasury today_called for bids on|Fairbanks Editor Mail Line vessels will be assigned |husband’s fortune at between twen- " NEW YORK, July 15. — Closing | tana. be paid early but there is nothfinfl 16 new Federal buildings in 10 states 5 to the run by the Commission short- | ty miilion and fifty-two million dol- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| One possible outcome of the ac-}in the law to prevent a court holding | and Alaska. The location, descrip- lS RI'II[ on Job 1y. lars. | . e stock today is 10%, American Can|cident is that any person entitled|up payment fo passengers until | tions of projects and dates for open- | ———e— ‘Shlp Wrecked»—|3 Aboard ©9%, American Light and Power | to damages may find his hands|the reorganization is complete,|ing bids by the local postmasters in-| NEW YORK, July 15. — The; . . U 7S o K 5% Anaconda 34, Bethlehem Stesl|filled with railroad securities is-|which might be years. o | cluded the Wrangell postoftice. Bids round = the - world Hughes' piane. ORDER OF MOOSE TO n" a Kmnapel’ ninjured—One Patient ~ommonwealth and Southern |sued in lieu of cash awards. More| The Interstate Commerce Com-|for the Wrangell job are to be|brought a special handful of mail a . ?'\, g,‘,’nm Wright 5%, Genem”likely. paments will be made in|mission never has compelled lr:l‘:-‘opened August 11 and preliminary tor!ths At:mcu;ud Press and lalso leATE TONN;HT & o | Klued, Others In]ured S 14, International Harves-| cash. roads to carry insurance on their estimate has placed the cost at|pictures taken at Fairbanks along / bt icc ?:,?“Z-: ;:i(ggnnmn 39%. New York, The Interstate Commerce Com-|passengers. The railroads have|$275000. with & marked copy of the Fair- | Initiation by the Loyal Order of Tn nle T'"s Mn“th‘l’n?xuflg?cafim' M};‘;: e Central 18, Southern Pacific 16%, mission keeps its eyes on these|enough property, as a rule, to guar-| banks News-Miner dated July 12. iMoose will be held this evening in L. ;‘}: ll)hl bm’uh- United States Steel 58, Cities Serv- | things but the Federal Court infantee payment. PWA approval has been given| Editor Charles R. Settlemier sent/the I O. O. F. Hall, with James 2 e ) %8 ne:t md“fldlnx ice 9%, Pound $4.93%, Northern Pa- Which the railroad receivership is & | for addition of a wing on the Main | them along with a note hastily pen- Carlson as Dictator. A large attend- = Az*ASSEE Fla, July 15. o s omi one pa injur- cific 11%. | pending is largely responsible for| THEY CARRY INSURANCE Street side of the Federal building|ciled on the newspaper which read: ance Is expected as the entertain-|Gov. Fred P. Cone has signed a ey TS. deciding how and when payments A 2 A here at an estimated cost of $310,-| “To the Associated Press, New York ment committee has prepared a | death warrant calling for electrocu- though the plane was wrecked, DOW, JONES AVERAGES | Are to be made. § u,.A "’T‘S"i?c gk ii‘fi’eiofipfi’,‘? 000 But no_allotment has been made| City, from C. R. Settlemier, Editor special luncheon to follow zhemeez-’twnkot!PrJu:xklg l;ierce McCall the :‘ll eight p:-!‘s:'nxm and crew of & S3% A es. The requires bus - | . % - | week of Ju the kidnaping |five esca] jury. lowing are today's Dow, boocuad 3 5 “land no action is expected before|and Manager, Fairbanks, Alaska, ing. Committee in charge of en y or the ping s ,,f“,’;mges:g Industrials 13752 IT'S UP TO COURT fes to carry as much as $5.000 INSUr- | oy the first of the year, accord- | per Howard Hughes, Round World tertainment is G. Battello, Fred|of five-year-old Jimmy Cash Jr. m‘fl;r":o:h;mm:w; failed at the rails 27.13, utilities 21:35. l When a railroad is in court for (Continued on Page Three) ing to authorities here. l!"hflht." Erickson, and Val Poor. of Princeton, Fla. takeo e Janeiro.