The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 16, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE v “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL: LIL, NO. 7847. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS . PRICE TEN CENTS FARLEY PREDICTS EARLY START AIR MALL | h BRANT STRIKES Swit Fles REEF AT KODIAK ~ Conplete Lo RESCUED SAFELY Nonstop it ‘ Sl lRussia Makes Demonstra- | tion for Benefit Far | East Enemies | Gruening, Bell, Caldwel Not Aboard at Time of Accident MOSCOW, July 16.—While New York gave a thundering welcome to Howard Hughes and his four com- panions, Russia greeted with noisy acclaim two of her own heroes whc The 100-foot Bureau oi Fisheries vessel Brant struck Williams reef about 10 miles east of Kodiak har- bor at 11:05 yesterday morning, was floated two hours later on the| made the 4,300 mile nonstop flight high tide and towed into Kodiak from Vladivostok. where she is now lying alongside The fliers were Major Vladimir the Navy airplane carried Wright while inspection is being made, ac- cording to word to the Bureau of- fice here. Alaska Agent L. G. Win- gard said his information did not indicate how badly the vessel had been damaged. A message to the Associated Press from the Coast Guard stated the bottom had been badly damaged, but later the leak was controlled and the vessel grounded during a heavy sea and that the Wright and| the minesweeper Teal were standing| by. The Brant had first radioed that she was sinking and the airplane carrier and the minesweeper, which | were in the vicinity, rushed to her rescue. No loss of life or injury is reported. The vessel left here the evening of July 7 with Commissioner Frank T. Bell, Congressman Millard F. Caldwell of Florida, Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Posses- sions in the Interior Department,| State Senator John B. McColl of| California; Peter Gruening, son of | Heart Attack the Director; Mrs. Caldwell, iss —_— Jean Caldwell, Miss Louise Har- PARIS, July 16.—Samuel Insull, wood, Miss Virginia Eaton and Jess |78, former Midwest utilities Czar of Bell, brother of the Commissioner,|the United States, died suddenly aboard, in addition” to the crew. here today. Officials said he col- headed by Capt. Willlam Olsen, [lapsed from an attack of the heart bound for Cordova. The Commis-|in a subway train. sioner, ‘Congressman Oaldwell and| rnsul] was dead when he reached Dr. Gruening are understood to|ihe emergency hopital. have left the Brant at Cordova and| nsull came here last Monday to taken a plane into Bristol Bay.|visit his wife who is staying at a Kokki M. Bry They hours to demonstrate long range possibilities of the Red Army's air- craft Commissar of Defense Mikhail Kaganovitch told the crowd greet- ing the two fliers: “Now we can say to our enemies in the Far East, that the Far East is no longer far east.” D SAMUEL INSULL DIES SUDDENLY, ki, veteran test pilot, and A ndisvky, navigator Former U. S. Utilities Mag- nate Expires as Result Citizens Joined in Defense Against Danger of Closings “Wrangell canneries are still op- erating and they are going to con- tinue to operate,” said H. C. Tim- merman, employee of A. R. Brueger, Wrangell cannery man, after arriv- ing here by plane today from the There they were taken aboard the|qowntown hotel. His wife, weeping Coast Guard cutter Ingham and|ggiq: I had told him never to take were not aboard the Brant when |, subway because it was bad for she struck. his heart.” The Ingham is due in Sitka Wed-| 1hq) porn in'London, November nesday with the three officials. The 11 159 became an immigrant Eng- Brant was supposed to have met iy clerk, went to the United States the Coast Guard ship there. Dr.|;,g hyiit a $4,000,000000 utilities Gruening's itineraty called for him|em i only to see it collapse when to meet Chief Engineer Ike P. _Tuy' the intricacies of its vast financial lor of the Alaska Road Commission | ,..oture got beyond his control in at Sitka and the men were gOINg| o joan years of 1931 and 1932. the Bell party continued south. ‘laux‘mhed power and light projects " until a network of his stations serv- : ed 37 States and parts of Canada. In addition to production of elec- |and electrified urban and suburban Le rail routes. H“n“lng salmnn | As a financier, he formed huge investment trusts to insure reten- . [tion of control of his operating Pack'"g Pla"ts;compnmes against stock raids by business rivals. The affairs of his companies—mercilessly buffeted by | the stock market declines of 1929, 1930 and 1931—became hopelessly entangled. ‘The largest of these, Middle West Utilities, a $3.000,000,000 holding |concern, went into receivership in |April, 1932. Following its failure, Insull Utilities Investments, Inc., and Corporation Securities Com- pany, capitalized jointly at nearly half a billion dollars, collapsed. Insull was indicted in Chicago Stikine River gateway city. following the collapse of his great “Our town is 100 percent AFL,” empire, and fled abroad. He was Timmerman said. “Everybody from|finally placed under arrest in fishermen to merchants, right down | Greece and after weeks of fighting the line, has decided that CIO will |extradition, was taken back to the not meddle in our affairs. United States, went on trial; and “We want those four canneries|acquitted. operating, and CIO is not going to| Practically the only income In- stop them.” |sull had at the time of his death Timmerman said a boatload of |was three pensions of $6,000 each CIO representatives from Peters-|voted to him by the directors of a burg, scheduled to arrive in Wran- trio of his largest companies. He gell, were awaited this morning by was 40 when he married Miss Mar- a group of business men and fisher- | garet Bird, an actress who always men at the dock. !cnntmued her interest in the the- “The word was passed around, atre. Mrs. Insull returned to the and when the boat was seen com-|stage several times after their son, ing, the fire whistle was to be|samuel Insull, Jr., had grown to blown,” Timmerman said. “There|manhood and assumed a place in were no arms, or anything like that, | his father's affairs. but we just weren't going to let the nd. It didn't show up, but s il M ‘RAY STEVENS SOUTH Timmerman also said that all| FOR THREE WEEKS available boats are going to "“kei Ray Stevens is an outbound pas- every AFL they can carry and g0|conger on the steamer Mount Mc- to Ketchikan tomorrow. . |Kinley which left here last eve- “They should be there at 2 0'-|,ing “me plans to meet Mrs, Stev- clock tomorrow afternoon, about 200| ons iy, San Francisco, where he will of them. It will show Ketchikan geng the next two or three weeks the APFL strength,” said Timmer- visiting. man. During his absence, Miss Helen ‘AFL fishermen and WOIKers comphell will take over his duties | know that CIO longshoremen in Se-| o4 the office of the A Pederal (Continued on Page Two) —ls:wmgs and Loan Association. covered the distance in 24| PARIS SUBWAY 1Perry the last of August. GHINESE AIDED PRESIDENT ON BY RAIN CHECK PACIFIC OCEAN JAPAN ADVANCE FOR VACATION 25,000 Nippon Soldiers/Roosevelt Boards Cruiser Reported to Have Been | Houston at Los An- | Cut Off Near Kiukiang | geles for Sea Trip SHANGHAI, July 16 —Sllmm«r; LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 1(;_'* rains, following close on the spring|Salt air, big fish and a vacation| | floods, have caused a new menace|from his tiring duties, beckoned |in Honan Province. | President Roosevelt to a rendezvous | The Japanese admit that a 30-|far out on the Pacific. | mile motor highway between Kai-| The President’s special train| | feng and Lanfeng was washed out|rolled into Los Angeles on the last and halted the advance westward |leg of his transcontinental journey from Kaifeng to Chengchow. to Galapagos Islands to fish for The Japanese offensive, forcing| marlin, sailfish, barracaudas and the 1y up the Yangtze River, is|sharks. stalemated at Kiukiang despite| The President plans to have an- | heavy plane and artillery concen-|chor dropped wherever there is tration good fishing and then head home The Chinese claim 25,000 Japa-|in time to reach Panama Canal on | nese soldiers have been cut off by |August 5, and reach Pensacola, Fla, a counter attack 18 miles east of four days later. Kiukiang. | The President will keep in touch The Japanese admitted they are|with affairs by Navy radio. encountering stiff resistance. News men are not accompanying - e the President as in the past and is furnishing the daily radio dis- | pateh. . The President confirmed the ap- Is Lflflkl"g uver pointment of Elmer Andrews, New | er, to administer the new wage and | hour law. | as a r“spec s President Roosevelt told a cheer- | |ing crowd that he hoped that Sen- —_— ator William G. McAdoo, of Cali- ‘Mflrm“" Leadar Private Secretary Stephen Early York State Industrial Commission- be re-elected to the ; fornia, | Senate. The President said there was isnmn question last March whether | Senator McAdoo would run again | pulivis. but “I wrote and told him I hoped While there is no definite col-|very definitely he would run for onization seheme in mind at this|¢ Senate and by that I meant I a hoped that he would bt elected, | time, representatives of the Latter | Day Mormon Church of Salt Lake | — e are looking over Alaska with the!TwU HUNDHED | | possible view of establishing some | Two Thousand Men Engag- |of their people in the north, ac- | | cording to Preston Nibley of Port- | ed in Battling with Various Blazes will |Head of Latter Day Church | Group Viewing Possi- ‘ bilities in North land, Ore., who has charge of Lhe: church’s activities in Oregon, Wash- | |ington, British Columbia and Al-| |aska. Mr. Nibley with his wife, | daughter Annette, his sister, Mrs, George M. Cannon of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Wells Bowen of Ju- |neau and Seattle arrived here yes- |terday on the Mount McKinley |after visiting the Mormon churches ‘m Anchorage and Fairbanks, the |only two of that faith in the Ter-| SEATTLE, July 16.—More than| ritory. 12000 men, battling 200 Pacific | “Our people follow the land, we Northwest forest fires, are heart- are not interested in mining,” he ened over forecasts of cooler wea- |said. “One of our goals during re- | ther and increasing humidity. |cent years has been keeping our Washington state is the hardest | people off relief and we have been hit with 100 fires, mostly in the| |quite successful in doing so. Our|western area. The largest blaze has people are land owners and work burned 20,000 acres of the Long, lon it. If, in the next two or three Bell Lumber Company holdings| | years, some of our people come near Ryderwood. north you will find that they will OISO 5 ST TN | come prepared to take care or‘ { themselves and stay with the coun- | EX-FILM STAR | | Following the week-end stopover GUES THHOUGH lin Juneau, guests at the Juneau hotel, the Nibley party will sail| | south Monday aboard the Columbia. | THls MuHNlNG { | { | | | The PAA plane left for Fairbanks | this morning with the following Alaska Tour | passengers aboard: Harry Franck | and son, Anna Crites, Mrs. V. Newlin, N. Hornum, Earl D. Mc- | P R | lMLAcH ENROUTE ‘ed through Juneau today on the | | Baranof, TO PORT BENNY Now a prominent socialite in Los | Angeles, Alice “doesn’t play in the | W. J. Imlach, widely known Al-| movies anymore.” She played dur- try. There will be no fly-by-nights "PAA LEAVES WITH ' |Alice Calhoun, Once Star Ginty, Mrs. W. Hall and son, and | aska herring plant operator, Mrs. ‘ ing the twenties in 52 films. | | Imlach and their son George are| With the sweet smile that she is| | passengers aboard the Baranof, remembered for in “Little Minister” | which stopped in here this morn-iot eight years ago, she said, ‘That 1 ing on the way to the Westward. Mr./was my last picture. I've retired Imlach is bound for Port Benny now.” where he has a herring plant. | While in Juneau, Miss Calhoun ———eveo——— called on Gov. John W. Troy. She SHOOT AT RANGE TOMORBOWHS a close friend of Mrs. Troy in| Dressed in blue sharkskin slacks, | land cutting as trim a picture on |Juneau’s docks as he did in the| \movies of the vitagraph days, Alice Calhoun, brown-eyed brunette, once | a well-known filmdom name, pass- among them.” 8 FOR FAIRBANKS of Vitagraph, Making Mrs. O. M. Powell. Naval British merchantmen were attacked. “free ports” and to discriminate in favor of the British flag. ships burning and sinking in the Valencia harbor. WILL STUDY \’T BASEBALL TODAY o+ M | | | : | The following are scores of games | played this afternoon in the two | major leagues as received up to 2 o'clock: ALASKAFOR | | Boston 7; Chicago 8. - i Brooklyn 12; Cincinati 5. American League Additional Defenses Are Detrols 5; New York 1 [ Required for Air and e N el 4 ; 3 Chicago 2; Washington 3. Submarine Stations Cold, Platinum Received Now At Anchorage Over $300,000 Worth of Precious Metals on Way to Mints ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 16, Eight thousand dollars worth virgin gold and platinum pa: through Anchorage weekly from mine to the mint, bankers assert. Three hundred thousand dollars worth of the yellow and white me- tals have been cleared since the annual flow started. It is expected | this will be increased in Septem- where he had been making his home| her when new mining machinery in recent years, according to word| peing installed in the various camps brought here by Alaska Secretary E. will be pressed into operation. W. Griffin when he returned here el i 'z | yesterday on the Mount McKinley. Mr. Coffey has been in the north for many years and was widely Famed Travel Writer Takes known. He was Assistant District Attorney at Ketchikan in 1919 and Plane Here for Inter- ior with Son WASHINGTON, July 16.—High ranking naval officers said today they are now undertaking to de- what additional air, sub- marine and other bases are required to serve the needs of the Navy and the expanding fleet Chairman Walsh of the Senate Affairs Committee said Al- a will be one of the most im- nt places for studying for pos- sites. termine por sible FORMER ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY PASSES AT KODIAK John Coffey, former Assistant District attorney in this Division stationed at Ketchikan, died the fore part of the week in Kodiak of 1920 and later went to Anchorage where he practiced law for some time before removing to Kodiak to| continue in the legal profession. | .- — Steak for Papa, Hasn fnr Mama‘ “The Prince of Vagabonds” ar- |rived in Juneau this morning on| LOS ANGELES, July 16.—Charles | the steamer Baranof with his son A. Bunting, seventy-one, formerly' (hoth traveling first class) and of Klamath Falls, bought butter for | poarded an all-metal, twin-engined himself but made his wife, Lucy, pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed forty-seven, and her two children|gectra for a swift dash through eat a substitute, she charged today|the skies of two countries to Fair- as she won a divorce. banks. She described also one occasion| The “prince” is Harry A. Franck, on which he brought home a steak | often called the greatest living writ- | and ate it himself, while the rest|or of travel books, a man who has| of the family had hash from a five- | peen to almost every country on! day-old roast. Her daughter, Betty ¢pq globe, and is going to write his | | ‘bos Angeles. The regular Camp Perry course This is her third trip to Alaska. | \will be shot at the Mendenhall|She will visit with friends at Law-| jrme range tomorrow morning, cars ing on Lake Kenai and stop over | |leaving from in front of the Fed-|a boat. | eral building at 9 o'clock, it isi - eee | |announced. All riflemen, whether| Mrs. Norman Cook is scheduled they are members of the Juneau}to arrive in Juneau on the steamer |Rifle and Pistol Club or not, lre‘Nnnh Coast next Monday. Mrs.| |invited to participate and try m‘ Cook, with her two little daughters, |qualify for the team which will Norma Dee, and Paula Kay, have represent the Territory at Camp |been visiting for the past few weeks‘ in Petershurg. Monk, eighteen, corroborated her | iwenty_eighth book with his sub]ect! testimony. Mrs. Bunting was grant- | yateria] Alaska. property settlement. |lege student, is traveling with him | e E~who his father says “perhaps may | Well-Known Author Are Now Learning | Franck is the author of those I! T I) | well -known books, To Chew Tol ACCO Down the Andes; Trailing Cortez | Through Mexico; A Vagabond Jour- Thanks to Mrs. Ruth Mitchell, Siam; Four Months Afoot in Spain; home supervisor for the farm se-|and many others. poultry flocks are learning to chew Above Two Continents,” a story of tobacco. |an aerial tour of all the countries chewing is a remedy for the “blue pean, soon to be off the press. bugs” with which poultry flocks| A dynamic, quietly dressed man fested. About two does of tobacco, | ghot hair, Harry Franck hit a administered on an empty craw ed approximately $3000 under a| g son, Harry Franck, Jr., a col- Poultry Flocks |learn the game.” Vagabonding CORSICANA, Tex, July 16. — ney Around the World; East of curity administration, Corsicana| His latest book is “Sky Roaming Mrs. Mitchell says the tobacco pordering on or lying on the Carib- in this territory have become in-|yith retreating and thining gray- a week apart, usually bring a cure. (Continued on Page Six) | fish, Pressing to paralyze shipping at Valencia, Spain, sirategic seaport—the vital lifeline to the interior and Madrid—Insurgent airbombers made repeated raids on Valencia during June. Along the seacoast 16 The bombings aroused the British Parliament and vain demands were made to arm British craft with anti-aircraft guns. Franco countered with a proposal to designate This remarkable picture shows bombed VIGOROUS NEW ATTACK BEGUN BY INSURGENTS Loyalists Claim to Have Shot Down 20 Rebel Planes in 3 Days HENDAYS, July 16. — Spanish Insurgents attacked vigorously to- day and are reported to have made progress against stubborn Loyalist resistance as scores of bombers strafed the Government positions that made possible an advance of four miles along the Teruel-Sagun- to highway Spanish Government militiamen remain in possession of strategic Maros mountain, 34 miles north of Valencia, which was recaptured yes- terday. The Loyalists claim 20 Insurgent planes have been shot down dur- ing the last three days with the loss | of only one Loyalist plane. O'CONNOR NOW AT KETCHIKAN, FISH DISPUTE Canneries Continue Closed | Pending Outcome of | Negotiations { A radiogram to R. E. Robert- son here this afternoon from Lester O. Gore in Ketchikan said that citizens were taking action to open two of the can- neries there tomorrow and that all the plants would open Mon- day morning. Three hundred seiners are in either Ketchi- kan,or on the way there, the message said. It was not indi- cated whether settlement had been reached between the strik- ing purse seiners and the pack- ers. Conciliator J. E. O'Connor of the Department of Labor has arrived | at Ketchikan and has started con- | ferences in an effort to adjust the | present trouble between the packers | and the purse seiners over price of according to a message to Gov. John W. Troy today from Senator Norman R. Walker of Ket- chikan, who has been named by the Governor to represent the Ter- | ritory. All 11 canneries are now closed in Ketchikan due to the difference between the CIO purse seiners and the packers who ordered their plants closed pending outcome of | the dispute,” it is understood. Yesterday it was reported that effort was being made to get fish- ermen at Petersburg and Wrangell to fall in line to support the CIO group. R FORESTER SAILS With District Ranger Wyckoff and six CCC enrollees going to the ex- perimental fur farm project aboard, the Forest Service vessel Forester sailed this morning for Petersburz. i Franco Strikes at Spain’s Government Lifeline SEES S_E—RVIGE ik | | SOON BETWEEN NORTH, STATES Forecasts General Air Mail Over Territory With- in Five Years GOVERNOR WELCOMES OFFICIAL TO ALASKA Chief Executive Stresses Need of Expanding Serv- ice Westward, Interior Addressing the people of Alaska and the nation over a national hookup as he prepared to step aboard the Aleutian in Seattle this morning for a visit to the Territory, Postmaster General James A. Far- ley said: “I wouldn't be surprised if air mail service will be estab- lished very soon between Alaska and Seattle.” He said that while in Alaska he intends to look over the possibilities and that “I may have something definite to say about it when I re- turn to Seattle about July 28 or 29." . The official declared that the service would be of advantage to the Postoffice Department and would meet the demands of the public. He predicted that every city of any size in Alaska would have air mail service within five years. Governor on Hookup Here In Juneau, hooked in on the broadcast through the facilities of KINY through which station the program was released here, Gov. John W. Troy extended greetings to Mr. Farley from Alaska and welcomed the official and his party to the north. Expressing to the distinguished visitor that this journey to the Ter- ritory is “an unprecedented honor from a Postmaster General of the United States,” the Governor point- ed to aviation as the most signifi- cant development Mr. Farley should be witness to on his trip through the Territory. “The airplane business in Alaska has developed to a point where its figures have become impressive,” the Governor said. “More air mail, in the Interior and in the West- ward, Bristol Bay and Kuskokwim regions,” are paramount needs.” Concluding, Gov. Troy said: “I have known Jim Farley for a long time — before he was Postmaster General—and I have admired him. Alaska will be glad to welcome Mr. Farley and his party.” Text of the Governors’ remarks follow: “People of Alaska will give you a hearty welcome. You have already by your acts demonstrated greater interest in this Territory than has ever before been exhibited by a Postmaster General. “As a matter of fact the trip to | Alaska on which you are leaving this morning is greater recognition than we have ever yet received from the Post Office Department. “In Alaska, you will probably find that our greatest need now is avia- tion development. Nothing will de- velop aviation in Alaska quite sa much as scheduled flying, the es- tablishment of regular routes over which flights will be announced in advance, The first step toward as- suring regular flying in Alaska is the establishment of airmail routes. “We have through your generous treatment of the Territory twice- a-week flights through the heart of Alaska from Juneau to Fairbanks and from Fairbanks to Nome and once-a-week flights from Fairbanks to the Bristol Bay country. These flights are developing a volume of business that iS° becoming so im- pressive that they are already justi- fying themselves and pointing the need for expansion. “The next needed step will be the extension of our air mail service to Seattle and through Seattle to the great Outside. “Alaska will give you a hearty welcome. In Ketchikan, Alaska's first port, you will be met by Al- aska's Delegate to Congress, Tony Dimond, by our mutual friend, Col- lector of Customs Jim Connors; Al- bert Wile, Juneau’s postmaster, and by the Ketchikan postmaster. U. 8. Marshal Bill Mahoney will be a fellow passenger from Seattle (o Alaska. From Juneau to Anchor- age, your party will be joined by National Committeeman Jack Hel- lenthal. You are familiar with these men whose capabilities have already been drawn to your attention.” In his broadcast from the steamer (Continued on Page Eight)